In the previous post, it was with a 64-bit JVM.
Today I wiped that installation and installed again with a 32-bit JVM. No difference in behaviour.
$ java -version
java version "1.6.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pap3260-20071123_01)
IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, J2RE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 AIX ppc-32 jvmap3260-20071121_15015 (JIT enabled)
J9VM - 20071121_015015_bHdSMR
JIT - r9_20071121_1330
GC - 20071031_AA)
JCL - 20071118_01
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