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AIX

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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.
about 2 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...
about 2 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...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Autoconfig attribute for the nvmeX devices

For unused fcnvme devices and unused fscsi devices, we provide an "autoconfig" options which allows us to put such devices in a semi-permanent Defined state. The customer would like an autoconfig attribute on the nvmeX devices as well, such that h...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Provide 64-bit build of BIND/named on AIX to remove MAXDATA constraints

Because of increasing memory demand we have named crashes that lead to production outages. named is shipped as a 32-bit binary at the moment which limits the amount of memory it can allocate. Please ship named as a 64-bit binary which will not rel...
3 months 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...
3 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://...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

Improve AIX Live Kernel Update network security for a cloud

Currently, AIX LKU requires the AIX partition to be able to access the HMC (or PowerVC) and login with an account that has sufficiently high privileges to create and delete partitions, network adapters etc. In our setup, as cloud provider, the cus...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Please add option to nfs client to let the server manage the group info / equivalent to -g or --manage-gids

Dear Sir or Madam, With AIX as client to mount NFS Shares users are not able to access data which are shared via NFS. In my case users have more than 16 groups they belong to and need to access their files. Groups can not be eliminated, unfortunat...
4 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

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