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update sulog timestamp to include year

Timestamp on sulog file only shows month, day and time (mm/dd hh:mm) information excluding year. For purpose of aix auditing we require full date information i.e timestamp in sulog should include year, month, day and time
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

alt_rootvg_op export flag (-X) should sleep the volume group first automatically.

alt_rootvg_op export flag (-X) should sleep the volume group first automatically. Failure to do so causes severe damage to the alternate. The same rationale was used to create IV89318, in which failure to sleep before rebooting would similarly des...
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Update version of ISC BIND used for AIX

IBM's present/default version of BIND for AIX is v9.4,...which is considered by vulnerability scanning tool Qualys as being EOL/Obsolete. Indeed the latest version of BIND is v9.11. Although IBM AIX support has confirmed that they are still fully ...
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Updating list of audit events

Customer is looking for a documentation update to the events for auditing. Customer originally opened this DCR in 2014, but it was not moved over when DCR's were migrated to RFE's. Everything from the original information on this DCR request has b...
over 7 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

auditpr -v enhancement

Issue: When using the command auditpr –v, each event is output as two distinct lines. The first line contains the audit event, time, user, command, etc. The second line contains critical trail details about the event. This two line format prevents...
over 7 years ago in AIX 14 Delivered

AIX alt_disk_copy command should detect a rootvg with two boot logical volumes.

When the AIX alt_disk_copy command is run against a rootvg containing multiple logical volumes of type 'boot', the new copy of the rootvg is unbootable. The alt_disk_copy command could easily detect this error and fail with an error message. I'm w...
over 7 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

viostat does not report statistics for SSP LU backed VTD

Customer Raiffesen Schwez reported via PMR 08673,112,848 that iostat is not reporting statistics for SSP LU backing devices.This is something they needed to debug an I/O performance issue. We discussed this with Mike Cyr who thought this is not re...
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Missing CCSID 850/858 locale Settings for AIX 7.x

Missing CCSID 850/858 locale Settings for AIX 7.x Please note: A similar request has been already filed to the TXSERIES Group in August 2016 (RFE 92875).On 30th of November 2016 we have been informed, that this RFE needs to be addressed to the AIX...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

issues with netcd

netcd is unable to handle the dynamic nature of the GSS (Global Site Selector) based DNS record/ TLL. when the DNS record becomes unavailable and netcd is handling the entry as ‘stale' entry in netcd's cache.When the DNS entry comesback online , n...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Syslog with RFC 5424 support

Syslog with RFC 5424 support
about 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

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