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Novalink appliance

Novalink has a dependency on Linux on POWER.Our firm does not use Linux on POWER and therefore introduction of a new OS platform will be a barrier to adoption of Novalink. Novalink as an appliance would remove this barrier.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

SO_REUSEPORT path for AIX 7.2

Our current application accepts connection using a single process and creating a child processes to process each request as per your suggestion Please visit the below link and module on which couple of companies are already implemented on this mod...
over 4 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Adding AI in Edge Computing based on Intel IPU and Nvidia DPU based on 5G Networking

1- Enabling AI in Edge Computing using the 5G Slicing Networks 2- Writing Device Driver for Intel IPU and Nvidia DPU devices to enable the IBM i and Linux accessing these devices. 3- Enabling the NVMe over TCP/IP for accessing devices over 5G netw...
over 2 years ago in Power Systems Design 3 Not under consideration

telefork() call for AIX

telefork() call allows to move a single running process to another server. Details about Linux realization - https://thume.ca/2020/04/18/telefork-forking-a-process-onto-a-different-computer/
over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

QID 11 Hidden RPC Service

QID = 11 Title=Hidden RPC Service Severity=2Impact = Unauthorized users can build a list of RPC services running on the host. If they discover vulnerable RPC services on the host, they then can exploit them.Threat= The Portmapper/Rpcbind listens o...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Scale out support for HANA

This RFE is PowerHA for Linux!.Today only a two Node Cluster is supported for SAP HANA.We have have customers who are forced to setup a scale out HANA database. Because the needed HANA database exceeds the max. supported size for a Scale up HANA DB.
about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

AIX entropy pool monitoring

AIX does not offer a way to monitor the entropy pool comparable with Linux:$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail According to the documentation there seems to be a pool for that on AIX as well:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/s...
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

PowerSC MFA high availability solution on Linux

PowerSC MFA 2.0 now supports Postgres replication for High Availability. I have suggested using PowerHA to manage an HA solution for AIX (ID# 154016), for the Linux MFA solution, pacemaker could provide similar functions - that is manage the avail...
almost 3 years ago in PowerSC 2 Delivered

AIX needs to provide ability to access SFP configuration

We recently had an issue with new equipment were we were delayed in deployment for a few weeks because the network adapters weren't accessible to the customer's network. We had worked with both IBM HW and SW support during this time, and it was ev...
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Please port the newly open-sourced Swift programming language to IBM i under 5733OPS

I assume that we've given the COMMON process enough time to percolate on this submission from 5Dec2015: http://requirements.common.org/powerbase/view/ideasIBM.htm?db=ideasIBM&Where=ID%20=%20371 Problem:Our IBM i development community struggles...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

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