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    CPYTOSTMF - Add a parameter allowing you to choose whether to propagate attributes (audit) when copying objects to QSYS and the ifs

    The behaviour of the CPYTOSTMF command can lead to uncontrolled results depending on the historical files and their configuration in the QSYS section when copying to the ifs. By default, attributes such as audit are necessarily propagated identica...
    6 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

    LVM mirroring across VGs (enables eg. online FS migration from one vg to another)

    LVM is great and has been for decades. Many LVM manipulations can be done online without unmounting filesystems or stopping the applications, which is an advantage compared to other OS's. There are, however, still a few things that require to stop...
    18 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    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...
    8 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

    Enhance(fix) the QLZARCAPI API so the messages returned are consistent.

    Currently there are 3 messages(CPF9897) returned for an LPAR that is part of other LPARs on a frame. SYSTEM INFO, PARTITION INFO, and PROCESSOR POOL INFO Of these, the second stanza "PARTITION INFO" is not terminated by a period. I have been worki...
    6 days ago in IBM i / Core OS 0 Submitted

    Provide an up to date version of ICU - International Components for Unicode (5770SS1 - Option 39)

    Having to deal more and more with Unicode and some applications that are still restricted to EBCDIC codepages, I was looking at the ICU library but found out that the most recent version on IBM is 4.0 which dates from 2009 (more as 15 years old) ?...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Submitted

    `xargs` should support `-0`/`--null` parameter

    xargs on AIX currently does not implement -0. While this is not part of the POSIX standard ( AFAIK, please check), it is implemented by every other implementation, including FreeBSD's. While the OSS toolbox's implementation /opt/freeware/bin/xargs...
    about 2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Free Tier for IBM i (AS/400) to Support Education, Ecosystem Growth, and Promote IBM Cloud

    Note: This proposal for IBM i addresses the exact same core issue of lacking a free tier for accessibility, education, and community growth as outlined for AIX in idea AIX-I-802: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/AIX-I-802. Both platforms suffer from th...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Core OS 1 Under review

    Modernizing WPAR Technology in AIX (Linux-like Containerization)

    I would like to address the future of containerization in IBM AIX. Since the proposal for "Docker on AIX" did not receive approval, I suggest an alternative approach: investing in the development of WPAR technology to align it with modern containe...
    10 months ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

    AIX community edition for QEMU/KVM

    AIX will remain the leading UNIX operating system for mission-critical environments for many years to come. It has performance, security and ease of administration features that make it a very interesting option for new deployments complementing t...
    almost 2 years ago in AIX 2 Under review

    Request for the additional parameter/function for detaching DDM from LVM Mirror

    ・Requested function: - I want to request a timeout parameter to enable users to adjust IO timeout to detach each hdisk from LVM Mirror configuration. - I want to request a function that enables a detachment of a DDM under LVM Mirror, in case its I...
    over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

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