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incorrect iostat metrics for vhost adapter

The extended metrics reported by iostat, viostat, and other perf tools are inconsistent with the column headings they're reported under. We have discussed this with Carl, Shajith, Gomathi, and Prajith, and have agreed to create an RFE to explore c...
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Required Samba V4.x support with Microsoft ADS (Active Directory Server) with Kerberos authentication

Samba V4.x running on AIX OS - need Microsoft ADS (Active Directory Server) support with Kerberos authentication. Active Directory support for Samba used to be there in older versions of the product such as V3.x - however with the newer V4.x versi...
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX 7.2 Live Update support for purestorage PCM

Please add support for the PureStorage PCM with the AIX 7.2 Live Update feature. Our team will use this feature to further enable ever shrinking maintenance outage periods by patching without downtime. A full description will be attached to this RFE.
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX IPSEC multiple network interfaces

My customer (a bank) needs to implement IPSec between AIX VMs. However IPSec today only supports one network interface. Support for up to three (today) is requested.
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

bos.cifs_fs.rte code needs updating on AIX

The best way that we have found to connect windows systems and our AIX systems is via a cifs mount of the shared Windows directory. We need the cifs filesets to be updated to accept new security protocols. i.e. ntlmv2, ntlmssp. Please do this for us.
almost 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Tool to change JFS2 with loglv to JFS2 with inline log without copy

Some filesystem are created with loglv when they should have been created with inline log.
almost 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

AIX needs to provide ability to access SFP configuration

We recently had an issue with new equipment were we were delayed in deployment for a few weeks because the network adapters weren't accessible to the customer's network. We had worked with both IBM HW and SW support during this time, and it was ev...
about 6 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Update Korn Shell ksh93 to a more recent version

We have a requirement to check the exit status of unix pipe as provided by the ksh93 'pipefail' option The ksh93(e) shell that ships with AIX 6.1 TL9 SP5 is at least 10 years out of datehttp://www2.research.att.com/~astopen/download/notes.htmlVers...
over 9 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Update Zh_HK Zh_HK.BIG5-HKSCS to HKSCS-2016

It is necessary to update the HKSCS locale to the latest versionReference:HKSCS-2004 which includes 4941 characters.HKSCS-2008 added 68 additional charactersHKSCS-2016 added 24 more characters.
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Enable LACP on backup channels of Etherchannel

Currently in the AIX 802.3ad Etherchannel driver, LACP packets are only sent down the channel that is active. The inactive channel does not process any received LACP packets or send any LACP packets outbound. Would like LACP packets to be processe...
over 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

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