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It is not possible to set SA idle timeout.

It is not possible to set SA idle timeout. There is no way to clear out SA if other peer not responding or gone without tearing down SA.
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX does not support IKE fragmentation

AIX does not support IKE fragmentation, resulting in the certificate chain needing to fit into a 1500 byte packet along with other IKE payload. Therefore certificate chains larger than approx. 600 bytes will not be supported (no workaround).
about 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

When IKE negotiation fails there is no proper audit message

When IKE negotiation fails there is no proper audit message – this results not being able to detect condition and report it correctly.
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Request to set/define SysName in /etc/snmpd.conf

Request to define/set sysName in /etc/snmpd.conf.
about 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Increase Password Length for CIFS on AIX 7.2

We have secure Windows shares that need to be mounted via CIFS on AIX 7.2 servers. Those shares have highly secure passwords that range from 16 to 20 characters in length per our Security Team requirements. The current version of the CIFS fileset ...
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Keep existing lvmo options after exportvg

When lvmo option is set on a VG (i.e. pv_min_pbuf parameter) and the VG is exported and reimported on the same or on another LPAR .
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Add Date/Time stamp to each Phase of the nimadm process

Having date/timestamp information available at the Phase level will take the guesswork out of where "time" is being spent within the overall nimadm process.
almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

Kernel supplies wrong adapter speeds

Both topas and nmon report the 40Gbit Mellanox adapter speed at 10Gbit. This is incorrect and needs updating. This applies to latest VIOS levels and AIX levels. It appears to be a general topas and nmon issue.
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

HDS hdlm support for AIX Live Kernel Upgrade

We require a fully supported AIX Live Kernel Update scenario with HDS HDLM.
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

SMB (CIFS)

We have been using CIFS (SMB) over a decade. We have been told by IBM that the CIFS driver is version 0.12 and there is no ETA to update to the driver to new version. CIFS is heavily used at the Bank. We have many scripts, processes and applicatio...
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

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