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    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...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 2 Under review

    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...
    4 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://...
    4 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    `xargs` should support `-0`/`--null` parameter

    xargs on AIX currently does not implement -0. While this is not part of the POSIX standard ( AFAIK, please check), it is implemented by every other implementation, including FreeBSD's. While the OSS toolbox's implementation /opt/freeware/bin/xargs...
    15 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Run SQL Scripts - add "bind:" prefix/command like VScode/Db2i

    Using ? parameter markers or :host-variables in ACS RSS is great, but the Db2i extension for VScode has implemented a "bind:" line-prefix / statement which helps a lot, when copying SQL statements from an RPG program source, to try them. Here an e...
    2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

    Request for the additional parameter/function for detaching DDM from LVM Mirror

    ・Requested function: - I want to request a timeout parameter to enable users to adjust IO timeout to detach each hdisk from LVM Mirror configuration. - I want to request a function that enables a detachment of a DDM under LVM Mirror, in case its I...
    over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Results File - file naming template

    Regarding the use of RUN SQL Scripts and the default naming of output files, I've come across several suggestions advocating for more flexible file naming options beyond the standard "Untitled.xlsx". Many other applications—such as scanning softwa...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

    SMBC file systems via automountd

    We would like to mount smb filesystems automatically via automountd. IBM support confirmed that the mount via automountd it is not yet implemented.It is only possible to do a manual mount for smbc which is not very practical. We don't want to crea...
    11 months ago in AIX 2 Functionality already exists

    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...
    10 months ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

    IFS: Please add the box "Apply update to all files in selected folder and any subfolders" that is available in Properties to also Permissions.

    Please add the box "Apply update to all files in selected folder and any subfolders" that is available in Properties to also Permissions.
    19 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

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