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    Send email with SNDSMTPEMM command with variables for the email addresses not all filled

    Change this command to accept an email address with all *blanks, not as an error but as *none Example :SNDSMTPEMM RCP((&P1) (&P2) (&C1 *CC) (&C2 *CC)) SUBJECT(Email test) + NOTE(TEST) With &P2 = *blanks  TCP5300 error and the ...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Not under consideration

    Enhancement of DDM error handling logic on LVM Mirror

    <Target software > AIX - LVM mirror<Request detail> Repeated temporary errors, such as "T VRSAS_ERR21TD", should be a trigger of detaching DDMs that has temporary errors on LVM mirror.(For example, if several "T VRSAS_ERR21TD" errors a...
    almost 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    chmod: ACL support

    Not very well known feature of Linux is the possibility to set ACLs with chmod command - http://www.mtitek.com/tutorials/linux/fileperm_chmod_acl.php even if there are special ACL commands like setfacl and getfacl. The feature is used in some Ansi...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    chmod: add reference option

    Sometimes it is useful to set permissions the same way as they already set on one of the files. In Linux it is possible to do the operation with --reference option to provide a reference file with permissions already set. Linux example: # ls -ltot...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Change the entstat 'Adapter Data Rate' to reflect the actual / current negotiated link speed vs the maximum speed.

    Example: PCIe3 2 PORT 25/10/1 Gb NIC&ROCE SFP28 ADAPTER The entstat 'adapter data rate' attribute is hardcoded to report the maximum data rate for the adapter regardless of the actual link speed. This is can be misleading and not helpful when ...
    9 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    AD User Authentication on AIX

    Hi Team, In our environment we have AIX hosts which is connected for users authentication via 'Active Directory'. It works fine when AD users login but it references /etc/security/user local file settings for any attributes. For Example: 'loginret...
    almost 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    Automatic increase of maximum allocation value during resize of JFS2

    During expansion of a file system the following error may occur: # chfs -a size=+100G /myfs0516-787 extendlv: Maximum allocation for logical volume myfs_lv is 512. In this case administrator must manually execute chlv -x <some value> myfs_lv...
    almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Allow to disable NFS client delegation on NFS server

    When an NFSv4 client mounts a share from an NFS server and has nfso client_delegation set to 1, it causes the rtcmd daemon on NFS server to establish a callback connection to the n4bg daemon on the NFS client on a random high port. These connectio...
    over 5 years ago in AIX 3 Functionality already exists

    Allow option to not log invalid OID requests as TCP4012 in job QTMSNMP

    It was discovered while a monitoring team had the IBM i LPARs set up in SolarWinds (SW) for SNMP monitoring that the QTMSNMP jobs were reaching maximum log size and ending. IBM support identified that among the OIDs SW was requesting were OIDs tha...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Future consideration

    LKU uptime

    Hello, it will be nice to see date and time of last successfull LKU, command like uptime for LKU output will be exact time and date when was LKU performed successfully. thank youRegards,Dany
    9 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

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