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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

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

VLAN / Vswitch info from CLI on Linux on Power

I would like to have a command on Linux on Power similar to AIX enstat command; to find out Vswitch & VLAN information from OS CLI: AIX entstat example:root@capadir01:/home/root # entstat -d ent1 |egrep "MYVLAN|Port VLAN ID"Port VLAN ID: 4000S...
over 6 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

Informix ESQL/C ifx_var_getdata() should do charset conversion when binding with CLVCHARPTRTYPE

Sorry for the IBM AIX product name but this is about IBM/HCL Informix and I can't find the product name in the list... Platforms: Linux Debian 10.7 or Windows 10Informix server: IDS-14.10.FC5Informix client: CSDK 4.50.FC5DB_LOCALE = en_us.utf8CLIE...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Ability to disable updates to the file access times in IFS (noatime support)

Add the noatime attribute to the mount command for UDFS objects. Use Case: When accessing hundreds or thousands of unchanging files in IFS, for example when compiling a large application, it would be useful to stop updating the access time for eac...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 5 Not under consideration

Console Connect Tool Needed for Red Hat Linux Customer Use

We have a complaint open for a client running RHEL on Power VM. They have Red Hat support and in order to do debugging the Red Hat team needs a way for the customer to capture console output via serial port connection. They provided the following ...
about 4 years ago in Parallel Environment for Power Linux / Runtime Edition 1 Not under consideration

Request a pthreads API for assigning names to individual threads.

pthread_setname_np / pthread_getname_npRequest a pthreads API for assigning names to individual threads. The interface can be non-portable. There is no known API for this currently implemented in AIX 7.1 thru TL3. Requirements:- Ability for a thre...
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Have AIX fibre channel allow storage target ports to leave Fabric and return with new FC_ID (same WWN) for Disaster Recovery

In NetApp's SAN storage Cluster Mode Disaster Recovery solution, two distinct clusters are active at separate sites. When one cluster or site goes down, the cluster at the other site can load it's replicated configuration and data and continue to ...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration

In the absence of multi-target SAP HANA configuration, support in PowerHA Linux, when user manually configures the 3rd site

In the absence of multi-target SAP HANA configuration support in PowerHA Linux, when user manually configures the 3rd site (say ‘C', outside PowerHA Linux which is configured with ‘A' and ‘B'), then correct handling of the replication state betwee...
about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Not under consideration