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My votes: AIX

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Update nmon to use the new folding API

Currently, the NMON algorithm is showing continuous unfolding in the reporting when none is really happening
19 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Extend the TSD database to include everything that ships with AIX

Currently, there are many binaries/libraries that are not part of the TSD. As a direct result of this, enabling Trusted Execution produces a large volume of logging. Another side effect is that it's effectively a non-starter to set Trusted executi...
19 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

AIX Toolbox needs feature parity with RHEL.

By not having a fat FOSS layer, IBM is self-selecting AIX out of consideration for the vast majority of ISVs out there. Note that I have nothing but praise and respect for the team that is keeping the Toolbox alive on a shoestring budget, but they...
19 days ago in AIX 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...
about 1 month ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Native AIX syslog function should support encrypted logs when forwarding to a central syslog server

In this day and age of OS security-awareness and its importance within operating systems (being available out of the box), critical OS logging functions such as syslog should support encrypting the logs if they need to be forwarded to a central co...
about 2 months ago in AIX 0 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...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Mitigate security risk VOLATILE TE - tsd entries after efix installation

This IBM Idea is was earlier posted https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/AIX-I-778 with my old company name, but now we changed the name from to ASNbank I could not monitor this idea any longer. Therefore summitted this idea again. Original submmited: Why ...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Use a complex_lock (read/write) instead of a simple_lock for the demux lock.

With etherchannel configuration including 4 ports and multiple queues the high packets is causing demux lock contention. while using complex_lock ( read/write ) this issue will be resolved.
5 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Improve samba client response time.

Development found the I/O slowness is related with the oplocks & leases (feature-1082272) implementation. Looks like storing the data locally in VMM and reading back is causing the slowness. This needs more analysis and also might need in dept...
5 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

NIM master process 'nimesis' to better handle network port scans

Since the recent NIM SSL security fix was applied, we have had nimesis process restart and hang during scheduled network port scan activities. We would like the nimesis process to be more resilient when port scanned to remain available when port s...
6 months ago in AIX 0 Under review