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AIX

Global option to prevent cron from sending mail to users

If a command in someones crontab generates output to stdin or stderr and is not redirected a mail is geneareted to the user who ownes the crontab. While this might have been a good idea 30 years ago, it can cause serious troube in modern environme...
3 months ago in AIX Submitted

More recent build of rsyslog than 8.2212 on MRS site. Primary feature: better wildcard support

Package newer version of rsyslog than 8.2212.0 (aka 2022.12) available on MRS site as of July2026. At least version 8.25 to more fully support wildcards. From the rsyslog docs: "Historically, versions prior to 8.25.0 had limitations, supporting wi...
7 days ago in AIX Submitted

AIX 7.3 FC stack enhancement for SAN environments using Simplified, TDZ or Smart zoning.

In modern SAN environments leveraging Simplified zoning, Target Driven Zoning or Smart Zoning, AIX or VIOS Fibre Channel ports may be exposed in fabric query responses alongside other targets.Under certain conditions this results in initiator‑to‑i...
2 months ago in AIX Submitted

AIX NFS client configuration with TLS

This secures the traditional NFS traffic (that normally runs over RPC).
4 months ago in AIX Under review

Support LTO9 with SAS and FC direct attach on AIX

There are many cases which it is necessary to backup AIX to external media. We and BPs have proposed RDX or LTO before, but we are now guided to propose only LTO. There are currently some problems on proposing LTO. Now AIX only supports LTO8 via S...
about 1 year ago in AIX Planned for future release

Add AIX and VIOS Error-Log Entries for FPIN Actions

Add persistent AIX and PowerVM VIOS error-log entries when Fabric Performance Impact Notification events cause changes to storage-path or device behavior. FPIN correctly reports fabric conditions such as congestion or link degradation. This enhanc...
14 days ago in AIX Submitted

Document emgr_check_ifixes selection logic and add machine-readable output with supersedence and reboot metadata

The emgr_check_ifixes command is a natural starting point for automating AIX security interim fix (iFix) management, but its documentation describes only how to invoke it — not how it selects the fixes it reports, nor the format of its output. In ...
28 days ago in AIX Submitted

Full Automation of AIX "autofsinstall" via system defined lpp_source

AIX 7.3 TL4 introduced the 'autofsinstall' functionality, which enables the automatic installation of missing packages. While this feature significantly streamlines operations, it currently requires the manual mounting of an 'lpp_source' from the ...
3 months ago in AIX Needs more information

AIX requires to provide sap alignment on rootvg - Reg

Hi Team, Currently on IBM Cloud Power workspace provides default boot disk with 20GB. Later we required to shutdown and requires to increase the size of Boot disk. If it on provision screen, we can modify or set before provisioning and also we req...
16 days ago in AIX Submitted

Enable Support for NFSv4.1 Natively

IBm Cloud VPC File Share and natively using minumum NFSv4.1 but AIX on does not support v4.1 natively. This is a huge drawback for using Cloud Native Services.
about 2 months ago in AIX Submitted

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