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AIX

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    proxy support for emgr_check_ifixes and emgr_download_ifix

    Corporate AIX customers often use a proxy in their company to control internet access. However, there is no proxy support in emgr_check_ifixes and emgr_download_ifix.These commands only work with direct internet access. To make these new commands ...
    almost 2 years ago in AIX 3 Planned for future release

    Automatic Disk space reclamation option for alt_rootvg_op command

    When freeing up saved rootvg with alt_rootvg_op command it would be very helpful to add an additional option for doing automatic space reclamation to the disk subsystem where the alt_rootvg resides on.
    almost 5 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

    AIX: OpenSSH support for authenticating with FIDO2 credentials.

    Having OpenSSH at least in version 8.2 and getting support for ed25519-sk type of keys would be a gain.
    about 3 years ago in AIX 1 Planned for future release

    nconnect NFS mount option for AIX

    It will be useful to have nconnect NFS mount option like in Linux world available in AIX also to improve performance of NFS mounts for WAN connections and / or for connections with limited bandwith per one tcp session. In AIX NFS mount uses only o...
    about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

    Provide signature files for HIPER efixes

    Currently HIPER fixes have no signature files for the efix packages. Other efixes have .sig files so that those efixes can be verified after download, and installed via the "new" efix_sec AIX command. Security issue: for HIPER fixes is even more i...
    about 1 year ago in AIX 2 Planned for future release

    RBAC Domain assignment for a file gets lost when cp is used.

    When using Domain RBAC to implement access restrictions to files based on classifications. i.e. CONFIDENTIAL or SECRET as a domain name. However, when a domain SECRET is assigned to a file in directory /secret/ and someone with access to the file ...
    over 3 years ago in AIX 2 Planned for future release

    OpenSSL: Remove weak ciphers

    OpenSSL is provided with the AIX base operating systems but it currently differs from the core open source offering on GitHub by deliverying a significant number of old and weak cipers. Core OpenSSL provides just 27 ciphers in its default build bu...
    over 7 years ago in AIX 9 Planned for future release

    RSCT - Change to Communication Group formation over entirely uncommon subnets

    When creating a RSCT "Peer Domain" cluster in a DR setup (2 Data Centers, multiple km apart), and with multiple Networks. It can happen that unwanted, or not working RSCT Communication Groups get created. It would be useful to have a capability to...
    over 3 years ago in AIX 3 Planned for future release

    Enhance the AIX RBAC roles isso, so, and sa

    The AIX RBAC roles isso, so, and sa have in Standard AIX a lot less rights than in Trusted AIX. It should be equal. At least for the components which are available on both AIX types.
    over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

    ping response time to be displayed in microseconds

    Currently AIX ping shows response time in milliseconds like this: PING 10.128.172.56: (10.128.172.56): 56 data bytes64 bytes from 10.128.172.56: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=1 ms64 bytes from 10.128.172.56: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0 ms 64 bytes from 10...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Planned for future release

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