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My votes: AIX

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    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...
    about 14 hours 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...
    about 14 hours ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Update nmon to use the new folding API

    Currently, the NMON algorithm is showing continuous unfolding in the reporting when none is really happening
    about 12 hours 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...
    24 days 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...
    about 2 months 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 1 month ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Include important software as LPP on AIX, and support it.

    Nowadays, a lot of AIX systems include software that comes from RPM packages. I understand why AIX supports RPM packages, as developers/vendors from the Linux space tend to distribute their software in RPM form. A lot of software that is typically...
    5 months ago in AIX 1 Submitted

    One location for software downloads

    IBM AIX is a great product. But most users install software on their machines that is supplied by IBM but does not come with AIX. Examples are sudo, openssh, java, lsof, Python3, perl etc. Many of which are from the AIX Web Download Pack (https://...
    5 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Integrate AIX software repositories (including Toolbox) with RHEL Satellite for central management of both operating systems.

    We use the RHEL satellite (and Foreman) for all Linux hosts, why not integrate also AIX here and then maybe also use the insights software for monitoring and reporting.
    9 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Provide a command-line utility to modify AIX's ldap.cfg file

    If there were a command-line utility (similar to the 'chsec' command) that could be used to modify ldap.cfg, this will: 1) prevent syntax errors by checking the modifications you are attempting to make 2) allow for modification of the file by a cu...
    7 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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