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Create a VM but with a blank disk ready to be installed

If I want to have, say, 5 operating systems available for deployable in PowerVC (a couple of AIX releases and a few Linux's) then I have to by hand create 5 LPARs, hand create 5 Disks and by hand add them to the VM before I start installing the OS...
over 10 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Increase speed of QFileSvr.400 and NFS connections

SAP transports (STMS) on IBM i are running very slow compared to other platforms, regardless if using QFileSvr.400 or NFS. Use Case: We are using SAP Transports, which depend on the performance of QFileSvr.400, which is NOT the fastest interface. ...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Delivered

Port `find` command

Port the find command from Gnu findutils. Use Case: When porting other software (i.e. nvm (n1) for Node.js) there will sometimes be scripting involved that make use of the Linux-style/implementation of commands (instead of AIX). This means I get e...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Delivered

Host server jobs

Qualys vulnerability scan is run against iseries environment on a weekly basis. the purpose of running this scan is to fix any issues in the iseries.When these scans are run on a weekly basis it causes elevated CPU utilization and since these scan...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 6 Delivered

Allow write on Remote Image Catalog

Actually we can share Optical Image Catalog using NFS from one IBM i or even any other server (with restrictions) to an IBM i LPAR, but with read-only attributes. It would be a great idea to share this library in Read-Write mode Use Case: With thi...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Delivered

Allow ids on HMC's to not have a usable password.

Currently, we cannot setup an ID we must set a password to it. Recently, we have wanted to enable ID provisioning team to be able to manage ID's on the HMC's. They wish to use private / public key access via SSH exclusively, and as such we would l...
almost 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

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

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

issues with netcd

netcd is unable to handle the dynamic nature of the GSS (Global Site Selector) based DNS record/ TLL. when the DNS record becomes unavailable and netcd is handling the entry as ‘stale' entry in netcd's cache.When the DNS entry comesback online , n...
about 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

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