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AIX

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    Modify process's credentials include primary group and secondary groups

    I heard that process’s credentials include only the primary group by default, and secondary groups are not automatically applied. I want to design change because weblogic (web server) process's credentials should include the primary group and subg...
    12 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    fsck progress tracker

    Customer would like to have fsck progress tracker which would be useful to check how far fsck is porgressed. This is mainly helpful for large size FS>
    8 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Enhance Volume Group "AUTO SYNC" feature to bring a temporarily missing (and now available again) disk back to active and start automatic sync

    Dear IBM Ideas team, "chvg" command option "-s" offers the posibility to start "automatic synchronization of stale partitions" for mirrored logical volumes.Apparently the code does not provide to bring a missing disk back to active, so the automat...
    10 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    NIM client to allow you to specify the IP address to use for NIM configuration, and support multiple IP addresses on an interface

    Currently NIM only allows you to specify the network interface when running 'niminit', not the IP address on that interface. This legacy design was OK until the recent NIM SSL security fixes - where NIM is now making assumptions to use the first I...
    about 1 month 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...
    11 months ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

    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...
    2 months 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...
    3 months ago in AIX 0 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...
    about 1 year ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

    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...
    4 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    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...
    about 2 years ago in AIX 2 Under review

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