01SF235_180_160
The following system firmware changes affect specific p5 and i5 systems not in 24 inch racks:
Several problems were fixed that caused a failure to boot with SRCs B1817201, C1001014 and/or C1001020.
Supports Double Data Rate (DDR) PCI adapters in DDR PCI slots in the following systems: 9111-520, 9131-52A, 9113-550, 9133-55A, 9111-285, 9405-520, and 9406-520. Running a DDR PCI adapter in a DDR PCI slot in one of these models with a firmware level prior to this one may result in a potential data error. IBM recommends that you install this level immediately if using a DDR PCI adapter.
Full DDR adapter performance is not enabled in this level. Full performance is planned to be enabled in a service pack that will be released in the future.
LIC code updated.
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The following system firmware changes affect models 590 and 595, other HMC-controlled systems, and clustered systems:
Fixed a problem that was causing error code B1xx100A to be logged when an HMC was disconnected from a managed system. This problem is much more likely to occur on managed systems that have two or more HMCs attached, but it can also be seen on systems with only one HMC attached.
LIC code updated.
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A problem was fixed that caused commands involving LEDs to time out on large, heavily-configured systems.
LIC code updated.
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A new function was added to system firmware to allow power code downloads to be disabled and enabled. On eServer systems with a large number of towers, this allows customers to shorten the downtime after a system firmware installation by disabling the power code download to the towers, then enabling it at a convenient time.
LIC code updated.
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01SF235_160_160
The following system firmware changes affect all p5 and i5 systems:
DEFERRED - The hardware initialization settings were changed to prevent system crashes at runtime under some circumstances.
LIC code updated.
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DEFERRED - The initialization settings of the memory buffers were changed to eliminate spurious checkstops that were causing system and partition crashes.
LIC code updated.
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A problem was fixed that causes the system attention LED to be in the incorrect state.
LIC code updated.
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Fixed a problem that was causing the system attention light to come on even though no serviceable events had been logged.
LIC code updated.
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A problem was fixed that was causing the System Management Services (SMS) menus to hang when the boot list was viewed or changed when two AIX images are on one hard file.
LIC code updated.
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A problem was fixed that caused a 11003114 error code to be generated during power on.
LIC code updated.
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A problem was fixed that caused a null pointer in the virtual I/O (VIO) firmware.
LIC code updated.
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i5/OS only: A problem was fixed that was preventing an i5/OS partition from booting from an IOA in a DDR slot.
LIC code updated.
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i5/OS only: A problem was fixed that was causing some adapters to fail to become operational in i5/OS in a DDR slot.
LIC code updated.
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i5/OS only: A problem was fixed that was causing incorrect error reporting for adapters that do not support extended error handling (EEH) when installed in a DDR slot.
LIC code updated.
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The following system firmware changes affect models 590 and 595, other HMC-controlled systems, and clustered systems:
DEFERRED A problem was fixed that prevented a VTERM session from being opened on the HMC in certain network configurations.
LIC code updated.
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A problem was fixed that caused bulk power controller (BPC) connection errors in clustered systems by increasing the NETC SSL time-out value.
LIC code updated.
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A problem was fixed that caused HMC-directed concurrent maintenance actions to fail with the message "CIM client detected: hard stop or user intervention. Try again or delay the repair.".
LIC code updated.
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A problem was fixed that was causing platform dumps on large, richly-configured systems to result in an out-of-bounds memory access failure.
LIC code updated.
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A change was made to shorten the time to execute DLPAR memory removal operations.
LIC code updated.
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The following system firmware changes affect systems that are not HMC-controlled:
A timing issue in the firmware was fixed that was causing firmware installations from the operating system to fail.
LIC code updated.
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The following system firmware changes affect the Model 570:
On model 570 systems with 12 or 16 processors, the maximum number of partitions had been erroneously set to 80 in SF235_160; this firmware level sets the maximum back to 120 partitions for 12 processors and 160 for 16 processors.
LIC code updated.
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On the model 570 with three or four processor drawers, a problem was fixed that was causing the system to stop with error code A7004713 when installing SF235_160 or higher system firmware.
LIC code updated.
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01SF230_145_120
Fixed a problem that was causing the user data in a service processor error log entry generated by the bulk power controller to be truncated to 2048 bytes.
LIC code updated.
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Fixes a problem that caused unnecessary Service Agent calls because SRC B1816009 was being generated when the white power button was pressed before the power-on sequence was complete.
LIC code updated.
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On model 590 and 595 systems, fixed a problem that was causing DDR II memory cards in slots C10 and C12 to fail the memory test during a slow-mode boot.
LIC code updated.
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Fixed a problem that was causing a platform dump to be incomplete under certain circumstances.
LIC code updated.
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Fixed a problem that was causing a hypervisor dump to be corrupted.
LIC code updated.
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Fixed a problem that caused the location codes to be incorrect after the planar is replaced in a pSeries 7311-D20 drawer.
LIC code updated.
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The timestamp from the bulk power controller was added into the serviceable event log entry.
LIC code updated.
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Fixed a problem that prevented the "nvunalias" open firmware command from working.
LIC code updated.
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Fixed a problem that kept the physical I/O description field on the HMC GUI from being updated after a "remove FRU and add FRU" operation.
LIC code updated.
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Fixed a problem that caused a service processor dump or a platform dump and SRC B1817201 or B7004400.
LIC code updated.
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Changed the firmware so that a modem attached to a system port will reconfigure to enable call-in following a power failure.
LIC code updated.
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Fixed several problems associated with firmware installations:
- SRC B1814008 or B181F131 was generated on reboot
- A service processor dump occurred during a firmware installation
"lsmcode -c" command displayed all zeros for the firmware level on the T side after an installation
LIC code updated.
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Fixed VPD-related command hangs (such as lsmcode, lsvpd, snap)
LIC code updated.
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On i5 systems, added support for booting from a boot device attached to an IOP-less adapter.
New function.
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Added support for the installation of two copies of the AIX operating system on one hard file. This includes support in the SMS menus for booting from either one.
New function.
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Added support for feature code 1812, the GX Dual-port 4x InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter, on model 52A systems.
Added support for feature code 1811, the GX Dual-port 4x InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter, on model 575 systems.
New function.
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Added support for moving the CUoD resources from one machine to another machine.
New function.
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Added support for the capability to setup a backup shared ethernet so that the shared ethernet function can fail-over to a standby shared ethernet if the primary fails. This function is part of the virtual IO server.
New function.
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Added support for redundant service processors with dynamic failover in models 570, 590, and 595.
New function.
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Added support for modifying the number of On/Off CoD activations during the active period.
New function.
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Added support for unattended HMC installation over a network, and to back up full HMC disk images onto a network server.
LIC code updated.
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Added support for new models: 9131-52A, 9111-285, 9133-55A, 9110-51A, 9115-505.
LIC code updated to correct the data stream sent.
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Various enhancements to the ASCII version of the Advanced System Management Interface (ASMI) menus were made.
LIC code updated
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