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    netserver substitution variabiles in share declaration or exit program for dynamic mapping

    In many system is possible and common to connect to a logical share that then get mapped do different physical directories according to substitution variable in the share declaration. for example accessing via SMB \\server\home maps to the connect...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 0 Submitted

    Add Inherit Rules to IFS journalling

    Today when you set up journalling for the IFS the STRJRN command allows you to filter the objects that are to be journalled, however this is a one off request and the inherit rules are not able to be set to allow future filtering of the objects jo...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Future consideration

    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...
    3 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

    Add an option to prevent QDLS from being used

    IBM is recommending to stop using QDLS since 2010. Symmetric Multi Processing and using QDLS are also not a good combination. Sun setting QDLS is maybe a bridge to far, but giving the option to prevent QDLS from being mounted during the IPL, is ma...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

    Enhance the CPIAD09, CPIAD0B, and CPI3E34 messages to indicate whether the connection came in an a secure port or a non-secure port

    The subject messages are all very similar and are logged to the history log when new connections are made to the system. These messages are very useful to understand the workload for connections to the system. However, there is no ability to deter...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Future consideration

    Change of WLM start/restart behave in passive mode

    When restart or start Workload Manager WLM the AIX is set internal locks to be shure that no new porcess,fork etc can happen until AIX has checked all running processes again WLM rules. On a multi terrabyte memory machine this can lead to 5-7 minu...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    alias be registerd in the niminfo file

    To use IBM DB2, we need to configure the /etc/hosts file as follows:x.x.x.x nimmaster.ss.local nimmasterDue to this configuration, when registering the NIM client, it gets registered as nimmaster.ss.local instead of nimmaster, which results in the...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

    Snap with anonymized data

    For security reasons, it is becoming more and more complicated for the customer to provide SNAP to support teams when needed.Mainly because these files contain IP addresses, hostnames and binary files.In fact, in companies, customers have modified...
    almost 5 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

    High priority login shell during low memory conditions

    Over the years AIX has become very stable, but occasionally there's an AIX system that seems to hang when experiencing low memory/paging conditions. On the system some processes (that don't need to allocate new memory) continue to work happily, pi...
    almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    AIX I/O error recovery ; Enhance EEH to RoCE adapter

    System: Product Power Systems , FPGAActor: enhance EEH to RoCE adapter Product FPGA on Power Systems is a commonly used expansion Unit that provides monitoring and error management of PICe adapter. Description: Customer uses SIView on Power System...
    over 6 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

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