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AIX

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    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...
    2 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

    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

    There is a risk that the ethchan_config command may mistakenly change the IP address of enX interface.

    Please Improve the specification of the ethchan_config command. ethchan_config should check the target device. The ethchan_config command can change the "netaddr" parameter of entX and set the address to ping of EtherChannel. However, the ethchan_...
    over 1 year 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

    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...
    6 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

    NFS3 performance improvement of attribute caching

    When a NFS client caches file and directory attributes, it uses READDIRPLUS to initially populate the cache, but does not when refreshing expired entries. Performance is improved briefly for the timeout duration (based on acdirmax, acdirmin, acreg...
    7 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

    Ansible operation for NIM

    Almost every AIX environment has a NIM server as central point of management. Ansible requires ssh connection from Ansible controller to Ansible-managed systems. It is possible to unite both NIM as a central management server for AIX infrastructur...
    almost 3 years ago in AIX 2 Under review

    Configuration rules for AIX (like those for VIOS)

    Would it be possible to make the very useful configuration rules function that is avaliable in VIOS avalaible in AIX? This would be very useful for setting customised defaults for different devices within AIX without altering the predefined ODM. W...
    over 2 years ago in AIX 2 Under review

    Customer is requesting for new additional functionality of reclaiming space automatically when files are deleted

    Customer is requesting for new additional functionality of reclaiming space automatically when files are deleted instead of shrinking fs with chfs reclaim option (normal or fast)
    about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Under review

    Maintain paths returning PQ=1 in Failed status after reboot

    At the moment when a LUN inquiry returns Peripheral Qualifier (PQ)=1, the path to the LUN is considered in Failed status. In the event of a LUN path temporarily changing to Unavailable (ASC/ASCQ 0x04/0x0C ) and therefore setting PQ=1, that situati...
    over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Under review

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