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2000 HP-UX System Improvement Ballot Results

Issue ID Votes Issue Description
Support,Upgrades and Contracts (uxsu00a) 1018 Need support contracts to automatically trigger the shipment of one set of appropriate CDs. Need this set automatically updated whenever a new product is released.
Patches (uxp00g) 910 When upgrading a product to a new version, need all current patches for that product to be included with the product bundle.
Support,Upgrades and Contracts (uxsu00e) 787 Need proactive (e-mail) notification when hardware and software updates (new release and/or patch level) become available.
Hardware - Availability and Support (uxha00b) 753 Need JetAdmin functionality brought back for administering printers (dump the web interface).
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00g) 752 Need better methods for determining when a kernel parameter limit is "hit" and how much to bump it.
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00h) 691 Need all OS functionality to be dynamically tunable (drivers, patches, etc.).
Hardware - Availability and Support (uxha00a) 663 Need support for printers (that HP makes) available in much more timely fashion.
Support,Upgrades and Contracts (uxsu00d) 654 When multiple machines are owned, need to receive only one mailing regarding upgrades instead of one per machine.
Supportability - Documentation and Information (uxdi00i) 652 Need sufficient documentation in hardcopy for resurrecting a "dead" machine. For example, "Installing and Configuring HP-UX", "System Administration Tasks", "Owner's manual" for specific machine.
Patches (uxp00i) 641 Need patch quality continually improved (don't release 25 patches to fix 1 problem).
Support,Upgrades and Contracts (uxsu00i) 600 Need a single point of contact inside HP to help me navigate across different hardware and software products.
Supportability - Documentation and Information (uxdi00g) 517 Need all variables used in Ignite configuration files documented (e.g., in a white paper), and kept up-to-date in release notes and documentation as new releases come out.
Hardware - Availability and Support (uxha00m) 516 Hardware developers and kernel developers need to work together to better detect "flakyness" of components in addition to hard failures, and correctly report them (e.g., damaging intermittent failures often occur for a long time before a full failover occurs).
Hardware - Availability and Support (uxha00c) 502 Need full support for Fibre channel fabric on HP-UX servers and workstations, including tape.
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00f) 494 Need a kernel "sanity" checker to be used before actually trying to boot. This should not only verify bootability, but also check for reasonable parameter settings, and any potential conflicts between parameters.
Supportability - Documentation and Information (uxdi00e) 488 Need application CDs to ALWAYS have an index (on-line or otherwise).
Patches (uxp00a) 470 Need more automated tools for selecting patches from HP repository.
Patches (uxp00k) 469 Need recalling a patch to be accomplished by releasing a new patch (e.g., to restore the original condition), rather than removing the old. Always patch "forward".
Supportability - Documentation and Information (uxdi00h) 426 Need all commands in the standard root path fully documented.
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00o) 411 More thorough performance monitoring tools for: CPU, Cache, and I/O (to device level, e.g., for SCSI and Fibre cards).
Support,Upgrades and Contracts (uxsu00g) 408 Need an automated method to automatically tell me when my warranty expires (so I can switch to support).
Supportability - Documentation and Information (uxdi00a) 407 Need dates clearly written on all CD boxes (and/or on the CDs).
Support,Upgrades and Contracts (uxsu00c) 393 Need a simpler way to "unlock" newly purchased applications on the Application CD without having to acquire additional CDs.
Supportability - Documentation and Information (uxdi00j) 388 Need better documentation of messages, particularly those related to security issues (e.g., an intruder alert, which appears to originate from multiple conditions, including /var filling up).
Patches (uxp00c) 387 Need to be able to rapidly search the HP patch web repository by key word (e.g., "security", "bind", "availability"), with the option to refine the search on the list initially returned.
Supportability - Documentation and Information (uxdi00d) 376 Need HP web site to be more careful about expiring documentation (broken links, broken bookmarks, etc.).
Supportability - Documentation and Information (uxdi00f) 349 Need "complete" application to be provided (documentation/code/etc.) on *one* CD.
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00d) 328 Need shadow passwords without requiring trusted systems.
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00b) 319 Need full support for managing users, etc. in a single-sign-on environment (HPUX/PC/etc. environments), perhaps through the use of LDAP.
Support,Upgrades and Contracts (uxsu00b) 314 Need to be able to dynamically choose how many sets of CDs are received per release, per 'set' of support contracts.
Patches (uxp00o) 309 Some patches write-over local customizations. If a patch detects such a customization, it should save that customization when installing. Need to have NO manual steps in the patch process.
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00e) 301 Need usernames to not be limited to 8 characters.
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00m) 294 Need "some portion" of Glance given away, e.g., text-only tools that perform Glance-like functions, similar to that which Microsoft gives away in NT.
Support,Upgrades and Contracts (uxsu00j) 285 Need support desk enabled to send a CD if they know the solution to a problem is on that CD.
Patches (uxp00b) 284 Need more configurable tools for selecting patches from HP repository (that give me more control in the selection process).
Supportability - Documentation and Information (uxdi00c) 250 Need "LaserROM" replacement for Dynatext (Instant Information).
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00a) 245 Need HP to recommend a (reasonably-priced) solution to the single-sign-on problem for HP-UX/PC environments (at least), and stick to it long enough to make it worth implementing at user sites.
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00i) 233 Need better handling of CD formats (PFSd is problematic at best).
Patches (uxp00h) 221 Need a checkbox on the web that allows me to say I want x sets of the Support+ media delivered every time you release Support+
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00k) 221 Need all rough spots in the 10.20 -> 11.00 upgrade to be smoothed out.
Hardware - Availability and Support (uxha00q) 215 Need the serial number on L/N-class machines to be more easily accessible.
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00j) 208 Need SAM to be less insistent on doing a reboot.
Patches (uxp00f) 203 Need patch bundles to NOT include both fixes and addition of new features. Make it either/or.
Patches (uxp00j) 196 Need a spreadsheet (or similar) of instructions for each patch that provides appropriate details / special instructions for installing the patch in various environments (hardware and software).
Patches (uxp00m) 188 Need firmware updates sent as software patches (allowing for better management at the our site).
OpenMail (uxom00i) 183 Need ability to view Outlook like folders (Calendar, Tasks, Notes, Contacts) via Web interface.
Patches (uxp00n) 182 Need patch descriptions to "jump out" of the documentation, e.g., "We fixed this but we also did this".
Support,Upgrades and Contracts (uxsu00f) 175 When purchasing a new machine, need to be able to use existing service warranty rather than developing a new warranty.
Supportability - Documentation and Information (uxdi00b) 173 Need a version of Instant Information that works with PCs.
Hardware - Availability and Support (uxha00e) 164 Need Networked Attached Storage (NAS) with push button backups for disk and with tape on same box.
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00p) 152 Need better performing and monitoring tools for AutoRAID disks.
Hardware - Availability and Support (uxha00i) 143 Need MPE to support Fibre channel.
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00l) 139 Need an "MC Serviceguard Lite". Would have a lower cost for less functionality, e.g., IP failover, perhaps some simple package (application) startup scripts. Probably no more than a 2 node cluster. Probably not shared storage.
OpenMail (uxom00a) 138 In OpenMail 7.0, when SMTP service is provided, make the SMTP port configurable (so that it's not only available on port 25).
Supportability - Documentation and Information (uxdi00k) 133 Need better documentation on Web Admin Console.
Hardware - Availability and Support (uxha00o) 127 Need graduated price list for processors on T/V class (i.e., processor #32 should cost less than processor #3).
Patches (uxp00e) 127 ACE of newest "hardware, etc" needs to be available for making patch bundles at or before affected hardware becomes available.
Hardware - Availability and Support (uxha00g) 123 Need better Fibre channel LUN support (minimum of 8) for HP disk arrays.
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00q) 117 Need OpenView products to be as readily available on HP-UX as on NT.
OpenMail (uxom00d) 112 Need divisions of classes within OpenMail administration like Operators vs. Admin - where within the Web administration GUI one class can do some OM admin commands, the other class can do all OM admin commands.
OpenMail (uxom00f) 109 Need spell checker added to Web client.
Hardware - Availability and Support (uxha00h) 106 Need Fibre channel trunking/aggregation (to enhance performance and fault tolerance).
Supportability - Documentation and Information (uxdi00o) 103 Need more technical hardware documentation for T/V-class machines, especially for "bootup codes" and "error codes/log decoding".
Support,Upgrades and Contracts (uxsu00h) 102 Need a way for companies without a support contract to purchase (at a reasonable cost) a day's worth of support.
Patches (uxp00l) 98 Need firmware patches for moving from 10.x to 11.x on servers and doing network upgrades as has been done with workstations.
OpenMail (uxom00e) 96 Need archive capability based on date or sender or size to remove items from the server.
Patches (uxp00d) 95 Need HP to adopt a more rational (slower?) approach to patch CD naming conventions. They currently change too fast in some cases, and are too similar in other cases.
Hardware - Availability and Support (uxha00l) 94 Need to be able to create a 2 node cluster without a shared disk for the lock disk.
Hardware - Availability and Support (uxha00d) 93 Need Fibre (Tachyon) card on HSC/GSC bus.
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00r) 89 Need HP to offer some type of "partitioning" scheme on a single IA64 cpu (i.e., allow multiple O/Ses to run concurrently).
Supportability - Documentation and Information (uxdi00n) 89 Need complete set of hardware documentation for L Class Machines.
Hardware - Availability and Support (uxha00k) 86 Need to be able to do data replication with the Veritas replication product with the new Veritas Volume Manager.
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00c) 70 Need HP to formulate a recommended solution for Pluggable-Authentication Modules (PAM).
Supportability - Documentation and Information (uxdi00p) 69 Need more configuration info about the benchmarks available for T/V-class machines.
Hardware - Availability and Support (uxha00p) 68 Need only 2 power cords on N-class, not 3.
OpenMail (uxom00c) 62 SUR - Need to be able to restore specific file folders within an account. Also single user restore (SUR) should be made more efficient, it takes too long to restore accounts making it unusable.
Hardware - Availability and Support (uxha00f) 59 Need increased speeds on Tachyon Fibre cards: minimum of 2 Gbit/sec.
OpenMail (uxom00g) 54 Need a chat or instant messaging type service so companies with firewalls have chat capability.
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00n) 46 Need a "FlexLM"-type solution for providing floating license capability.
OpenMail (uxom00b) 44 Messages sent to PDLs should not receive auto-replies. Perhaps this could be a flag one could set in general.cfg or when sending the message.
Hardware - Availability and Support (uxha00j) 43 Need automounter on V-class machines (HP-UX 11) to be capable of higher rate of automounting without failure.
OpenMail (uxom00h) 42 For MAPI clients, need ability to schedule meetings, grant permissions, etc. via PDLs.
System Administration & Software Availability (uxsa00s) 42 Need HP to offer Intel/Linux cluster type systems like VALinux or Microway.
Supportability - Documentation and Information (uxdi00q) 41 Need benchmarking for application measurements on T/V-class machines to be established using standard APIs so that a "transaction" is defined that can be compared to.
Supportability - Documentation and Information (uxdi00m) 40 Need documentation for LTO (Linear Tape Open), including technical details, development support, and rollout strategy.
OpenMail (uxom00j) 34 Add location and phone number as updateable fields to the new Web interface in OpenMail 7.0.
Hardware - Availability and Support (uxha00n) 26 Need to be able to do Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) over a Metro cluster by creating 2 OPS clusters within the Metro cluster.
Hardware - Availability and Support (uxha00r) 22 Need V-class skins (V2500 & V2600) made more robust.
Supportability - Documentation and Information (uxdi00l) -11 Need developer's information for graphics subsystems (e.g., how to do video capture when working with layered SCSI services).

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