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AIX

Global option to prevent cron from sending mail to users

If a command in someones crontab generates output to stdin or stderr and is not redirected a mail is geneareted to the user who ownes the crontab. While this might have been a good idea 30 years ago, it can cause serious troube in modern environme...
22 days ago in AIX Submitted

AIX 7.3 FC stack enhancement for SAN environments using Simplified, TDZ or Smart zoning.

In modern SAN environments leveraging Simplified zoning, Target Driven Zoning or Smart Zoning, AIX or VIOS Fibre Channel ports may be exposed in fabric query responses alongside other targets.Under certain conditions this results in initiator‑to‑i...
18 days ago in AIX Submitted

AIX NFS client configuration with TLS

This secures the traditional NFS traffic (that normally runs over RPC).
about 2 months ago in AIX Under review

Full Automation of AIX "autofsinstall" via system defined lpp_source

AIX 7.3 TL4 introduced the 'autofsinstall' functionality, which enables the automatic installation of missing packages. While this feature significantly streamlines operations, it currently requires the manual mounting of an 'lpp_source' from the ...
about 2 months ago in AIX Needs more information

replace nimsh for ssh

we have seen multiple security issues with very high CVE scores in the recent past with nimsh ssh is more robust and easier to include in firewall rules than nimsh as that requires ranges of ports
10 days ago in AIX 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...
about 1 year ago in AIX Planned for future release

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...
3 months ago in AIX Future consideration

Planning, Controller, Watsonx BI og and Cognos in one portal

Why have 4 portals to maintain for Planning Analytics, Controller, Watsonx BI and Cognos. Make one portal for all the Analytics products and you will have the strongest analytics solution in the world. The the customers can buy roles and can just ...
26 days ago in AIX Submitted

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...
3 months ago in AIX 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 Under review

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