System firmware changes that affect models 590 and 595, other HMC-controlled servers, 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.
• A problem was fixed that caused commands involving LEDs to time out on large, heavily configured systems. 
• A new function was added to system firmware to allow power code downloads to towers to be enabled and disabled.  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. 

• 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.

System firmware changes that affect all p5 and i5 systems: 

• DEFERRED   The hardware initialization settings were changed to prevent system crashes at runtime under some circumstances. 
• DEFERRED   The initialization settings of the memory buffers were changed to eliminate spurious checkstops that were causing system and partition crashes.
• A problem was fixed that causes the system attention LED to be in the incorrect state. 
•  Fixed a problem that was causing the system attention light to come on even though no serviceable events had been logged. 
• A problem was fixed that was causing the SMS menus to hang when the boot list was viewed or changed when two AIX images are on one hard file. 
• A problem was fixed that caused a 11003114 error code to be generated during power on. 
• A problem was fixed that caused a null pointer in the virtual I/O (VIO) firmware. 
• i5/OS only:  A problem was fixed that was preventing an i5/OS partition from booting from an IOA in a DDR slot. 
• i5/OS only:  A problem was fixed that was causing some adapters to fail to become operational in i5/OS in a DDR (double data rate) slot. 
• 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. 

•  DEFERRED   A problem was fixed that prevented a VTERM session from being opened on the HMC in certain network configurations. 
• A problem was fixed that caused bulk power controller (BPC) connection errors in clustered systems by increasing the NETC SSL time-out value. 
• 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.". 
• A problem was fixed that was causing platform dumps on large, richly-configured systems to result in an out-of-bounds memory access failure. 
• A change was made to shorten the time to execute DLPAR memory removal operations.

• A timing issue in the firmware was fixed that was causing firmware installations from the operating system to fail. 

• On a 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. 

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. 

New function:

• On i5 systems, added support for booting from a boot device attached to an IOP-less adapter.
• 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.
• 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. 
• Added support for moving the CUoD resources from one system to another system.
• Added support for the capability to set up 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.
• Added support for redundant service processors with dynamic failover in models 570, 590, and 595.
• Added support for modifying the number of On/Off CoD activations during the active period.
• Added support for unattended HMC installation over a network, and to back up full HMC disk images onto a network server.
• Added support for new models:  9131-52A, 9111-28 , 9133-55A, 9110-51A, 9115-505.
• Various enhancements to the ASCII version of the Advanced System Management Interface (ASMI) menus were made.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
•  Fixed a problem that was causing a platform dump to be incomplete under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a problem that was causing a hypervisor dump to be corrupted.
• Fixed a problem that caused the location codes to be incorrect after the planar is replaced in a pSeries 7311-D20 drawer.
• The timestamp from the bulk power controller was added into the serviceable event log entry.
• Fixed a problem that prevented the "nvunalias" open firmware command from working.
• 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. 
• Fixed a problem that caused a service processor dump or a platform dump and SRC B1817201 or B7004400. 
• Changed the firmware so that a modem attached to a system port will reconfigure to enable call-in following a power failure.
• Fixed VPD-related command hangs (such as lsmcode, lsvpd, snap)
• 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 

• DEFERRED Changed the initialization settings of the memory buffers to eliminate spurious checkstops that were causing system and partition crashes. 
• DEFERRED  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. 
• DEFERRED  Fixed a problem that was not allowing the system enclosure serial number to be rewritten using the ASMI menus.
• DEFERRED  Corrects a problem that causes the default boot list and the stored boot list to be swapped in the system management services (SMS) firmware when booting an AIX or Linux partition. 
• On an HMC, fixed a problem that caused a blank screen when reopening a VTERM after closing it.
• Fixed a problem that was causing a platform dump to be incomplete under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a problem that caused a "no connection" state between the HMC and the service processor after the service processor attempted a dump operation.
• Added support for ARP (address request protocol) to the System Management Services (SMS) firmware for AIX and Linux partitions.
• Fixed a problem in the server firmware that was allowing the HMC to allocate more memory to a partition than was available.

• Fixed a problem that caused system processors to get into a locked state.
• Changed the initialization settings of the memory buffers to eliminate spurious checkstops that were causing system and partition crashes.

• Corrects a problem on i5 systems with 5074 I/O towers that causes a partition to hang with SRC B6000255 when an I/O adapter in the 5074 is moved using dynamic LPAR.
• Corrects a problem on i5 and p5 systems that causes a continuous stream of phantom interrupts on partitions with shared processors.

Attention: An IPL is required to activate a deferred fix; the system must be taken down to the power off state, (i.e. HMC state=Power OFF) and then powered back on.

• DEFERRED  On model 575 and 59x systems in which an IBM High Performance Switch (HPS) is installed, a problem was fixed that was causing an invalid high performance switch adapter failure to be reported after a switch failure. 
• DEFERRED  On model SR110000 systems only, a problem was fixed that was causing the I/O in the CEC not t o show up after an IPL. 
• DEFERRED  On systems that are managed by an HMC, a problem was fixed that was causing concurrent firmware update to fail with error code ACT01724 on the HMC. 
• DEFERRED  Corrects a problem involving correctable and uncorrectable memory errors that may have resulted in memory being deconfigured during a slow mode IPL on 9119 59x systems with feature code 7814 (4 GB memory cards) installed. 
• Support for 16-way model 575 systems was added to the 01SF230 release. 
• Corrects a problem that was causing the firmware to erroneously report a failure of the High Performance Switch (HPS) adapter card (with error code B181F62A) in a 16-way model 575 system. 
• On model 59x systems, a memory leak was fixed that could cause the system to reset during boot.
• Fixes false error code B1812033 introduced in code level 01SF230_120_120 on all p5 and i5 systems model 570 and lower. The B1812033 error code may still be valid on 575 and 59x systems. 
• Fixes intermittent boot problem introduced in code level 01SF230_120_120 on all p5 and i5 systems model 550 and lower. Error codes related to this boot problem include B1701004, B181F12E or B150F22A. 
• On model 575 and 59x systems in which an IBM High Performance Switch (HPS) is installed, a problem in the system firmware was fixed that was causing duplicate errors for the same problem to be reported in the service processor error log and the HPS Network Manager error log. 
• On model 575 and 59x systems in which an IBM High Performance Switch (HPS) is installed, a problem in the system firmware was fixed that was causing some switch network interface (SNI) adapters to fail a wrap test. 
• On systems that are managed by an HMC, a problem was fixed that was preventing some types of errors that were logged in the service processor's error log from being sent to the HMC. 
• A problem was fixed that caused a very early reset/reload of the service processor with error codes of B1817201, B1817209 or similar after a firmware update. 
• On systems that shipped with a firmware level that begins with 01SF210, a problem was fixed that was causing the firmware installation to the T side to fail with error code B1817201. 
• A problem was fixed that was causing platform system dumps to be corrupted. 
• A problem was fixed that was causing concurrent firmware maintenance to fail.

• Corrects a problem that causes the media bay to lose power, which makes the DVD drives in the bay inoperable on 9117-570 and 9406-570 systems.
• Corrects most problems introduced in 01SF230_120_120 that causes the white power on/off button to intermittently fail to boot the system, terminating with error codes B181F12E, B1701004 or B150F22A, on 9111-520, 9113-550, 9405-520, 9406-520 and 9406-550 systems.
• Corrects a problem that causes various types of planar and RIO cable failures in the 7040-61D I/O subsystem to be reported on 9118-575, 9119-590, 9119-595 and 9406-595.

New function:

• Adds code to notify the user when the VPD card is not in its original system, and to prevent that system from booting. 
• Adds support for i5/OS hosting virtual Linux and AIX partitions on i5 systems that are not managed by an HMC. 
• Adds support for F/C 7910 on model 9118-575 systems the switch network interface  adapter, which provides the interface to the pSeries high performance switch (HPS). 
• Adds support for F/C 7817 on 9119-590, 9119-595, and 9406-595 systems, the switch network interface (SNI) adapter, which provides the interface to the pSeries high performance switch (HPS). 
• Adds support for concurrent firmware maintenance on systems managed by an HMC. 
• Adds support for 32GB memory cards on 9119-590, 9119-595, and 9406-595 systems. 
• Adds support for F/C 7894, 8GB (4x2GB) feature (2GB DDR2 DIMMs, CCIN 30F3) on machine type 9117-570.

• LEDs on GX bus adapter cards remain on after the node is powered off for 9119-590, 9119-595, and 9406-595 systems. 
• The service processor is not able to place a "call home" through a modem. 
• On systems 9118-575, 9119-590, 9119-595, and 9406-595: a firmware upgrade from SF222_075 to SF225_096 fails with error code ACT01724 on the HMC. 
• Corrects a problem that causes the default boot list and the stored boot list to be swapped in the system management services (SMS) code when booting an AIX or Linux partition. 
• Corrects a highly intermittent problem that causes the service processor to perform a dump when an SRC is displayed on the control panel. 
• On  9118-575, 9119-590, 9119-595, and 9406-595 systems, updates the firmware so that the system will continue to boot when certain types of failures occur on bus adapter cards. 
• Corrects a problem on  9118-575, 9119-590, 9119-595, and 9406-595 systems which caused a reboot to fail with error code B7006900 under certain conditions. 
• Corrects a problem with moving a CD-ROM device between two logical partitions using DLPAR commands on the HMC. 
• On 9117-570 and 9406-570 systems:  Corrects a problem a that causes a DMA_ERR with error code 1000 0003 on the integrated Ethernet port. 
• DS8000 storage subsystem:  multiple firmware fixes. 
• Corrects a problem that causes the system clock to revert to December 31, 1969 and the system to crash with error code B7000103. 
• On 9119-590 systems, corrects a problem that keeps large configurations (12 or more I/O drawers with both planars installed) from booting. 
• Corrects a problem that prevents the 'lscfg -vp' command from reporting platform-specific data on all p5 systems.
• Corrects a problem that intermittently causes a partition or the system to hang when the lsvpd or lscfg command is run on all p5 systems. Also, 'the lsmcode' command may return "NOT DETERMINABLE".
• If two power supplies are installed, the system may fail to power on if one power supply fails in the 9110-510, 9111-520, 9113-550, 9117-570, 9123-xxx, 9124-xxx, 9405-520, 9406-520, 9406-550, 9406-570 systems.
• Corrects a problem that prevents a virtual SCSI client from connecting to a virtual SCSI server adapter on 9118-575, 9119-590, and 9119-595 systems.

 

• Fixed a problem in the service processor firmware that made it look like the T-side image was being lost after a "reset to factory configuration" was done using the ASMI menus.

• Added support for systems 9118-575, 9110-510, and 9123-710.

• Fixed a problem that caused FSCSI errors to show up erroneously in the AIX error log when an I/O adapter failed.
• Fixed a problem that caused the processor runtime diagnostics to call out the wrong DIMM (or other memory component) when a memory failure occurred.
• Fixed a problem that caused a platform dump to run out of storage space.
• Fixed a problem that prevented the LEDs on I/O drawers from identifying or "rolling up" to the frame enclosure LED.
• Fixed a problem that caused the service processor to generate error log entries every few seconds when attempting to service a recoverable CEC hardware error on systems that have processors with no memory associated with them.

• Fixed a problem with the AMSI menu option that allows system VPD keywords to be set.
• Fixed a problem that kept the system from continuing to boot when an 8GB memory DIMM is deallocated because an uncorrectable error was generated by the DIMM during boot.
• Fixed a problem that caused a partition's time to appear to drift (approximately 15 seconds/month) following a system IPL.
• Support for partitions running i5/OS on p5 systems was added.
• Fixed a problem that caused the default boot list and the stored boot list in the SMS menus to be swapped.

• Added support for systems 9119-590, 9119-595, and 9406-595.

• Fixed a problem that kept feature code 1827, a UPS sense cable, from being detected. 

• Fixed a problem that kept the serial ports on the processor drawer from functioning in 9117-570 and 9406-570 systems with multiple processor drawers.
• Fixed a problem that kept the user from accessing the advanced system management interface (ASMI) via the web interface.

• Fixed a problem that caused the kept the service processor from getting to standby when an Ethernet cable was not plugged into it.

• Various corrections and updates.

• Added support for new models:  9111-520, 9113-550, 9406-550, 9124-720, and 9117-570.