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It would be convenient to have LLDP available in AIX in order to identify the switch/port our network adapters are connected

It would be convenient to have LLDP available in AIX in order to identify the switch/port our network adapters are connected in. Following cables from server network port to switch is sometimes very difficult and even impossible in some cases. LLD...
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]"? Support Regexp Adaptation Under Heterogeneous Collation Rules

1. A regex pattern is used by a regular expression engine for attempting to match in input text. A pattern consists of one or more character literals, operators, or constructs. 2. In regex, the character classes in regular expressions are an extre...
about 5 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Refer to case TS001953226

We have start an DB2 call for and CF memory lock issue when running DB2 Purescale. Since DB2 team have working on an Special Build for this issue, but they found their was an special request also required from AIX team for assistant.
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Enhancement to ignore ?AllowPKCS12keystoreAutoOpen? on the destination AIX server for non-AIX ssh clients request

The point is ssh tunnel needs authentication to complete before data transfer can take place. If AllowPKCS12keystoreAutoOpen is set to yes on the server,then the keys will be sent by server to the client. The client does not know how to handle the...
over 6 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

fileplace does not display ABNR block

fileplace doesn't show ABNR (Allocated But Not Recorded), and accessing the sparse file at theoffset would simply return zeroes whereas directly accessing the disk would return valid data. Highly recommend that a new flag should be suppliedso that...
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Include snapshot output in filesystem snap data

We need information in the filesystem portion of the snap command to identify which JFS2 filesystems have snapshot logical volumes. Currently it is not possible to determine this from snap data.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Make installp more intelligent re: Trusted Executition policies - currently TE=ON prevents any actions with installp

installp process examines the TE policies before taking any action. Once the policy "TE=ON" any action to install or uninstall software is blocked. The message is:Installation cannot proceed as Trusted Execution Checks are enabled.Disable the TE, ...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Client is requesting that the HMC not call home when MLXENT HW ERR is logged.

Client is requesting that the HMC not call home when MLXENT HW ERR is logged.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Massive number of installs and deinstalls can corrupt ODM

Large amounts of LPP installs and deinstalls can cause a unrecoverable corruption of the ODM which leaves the AIX system unstable.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

Error messages reported against fcs adapters

Sep 21 08:26:24 fcs2 T FCA_ERR6 Unknown error number: 0000000C Sep 21 08:12:09 fcs0 T FCA_ERR6 Unknown error number: 0000000C
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered