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Mechanism to allow drivers in IO path to communicate with each other.

We need a mechanism to allow drivers in IO path to communicate with each other.A possible approach could be to allow third party vendors to set/use any unused bit in b_flags in buf/bufx structure to achieve the same. Basically, In the IO path AIX ...
over 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

AIX DVD BOS Installation and support to NetApp MPIO

Trying to migrate my NIM server from AIX 7.1 to 7.2. When I boot from the AIX 7.2 DVD Iso image, using the Virtual Library from the Vios, it goes well up until I start the migration itself... At the very first step the migration fails with the fol...
over 6 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

secldapclntd 64bit

The AIX LDAP client secldapclntd is 32bit software, To run secldapclntd we need also install the 32bit part of the LDAP client idsldap.clt32bit64.rte and idsldap.clt_max_crypto32bit64.rte And if we use SSL then we install the dependency to the 32B...
over 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

AIX instfix ran from batch leaves empty dirs in /tmp

I use below command instfix -i | egrep "ML|SP"| grep "Not all filesets for" | awk '{system ("instfix -ciqk "$5)}' | grep ":-:" to find if all filesets in AIX are correct. After some time, in /tmp dir there is a lot of empty dirs with name instfixX...
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Is a defect

Need multiple IPSec tunnels in AIX to the same endpoint.

AIX has a limitation in IPsec configurability. It does not support multiple IPsec tunnels, each using a unique IKE authentication pre-shared key, to the same remote endpoint address. This RFE is to AIX to provide this capabilities.
over 6 years ago in AIX 4 Future consideration

On AIX, authenticate user access to servers by the LDAP group to which they belong.

System : AIXProduct : LDAPDescription:The client must be able to allow an access to server with an authenticate LDAP users according to the group to which they belong (bdd, ssoo, was,etc..), the directive of HostAllow and HostDeny of servers is no...
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

nimadm to support AIX update with cache volume group on master

It will be nice to avoid to perform the update of AIX to a TL or SP on the client itself in order to not impact the LPAR performance.It is already the case for Migration using nimadm but this fonctionnality will be also appreciated for update too.
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

trustchk needs an option to specify volume group or logical volume (jf2/jfs2) when using the 'tree' option

trustchk has an option (-i) so that it ignores NFS mounted objects. Also needed is a way to limit the 'tree' option to only rootvg, or better to a specific volume group or logical partition (jfs/jfs2). On a AIX node with multiple volume groups, te...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Add details on syslog messages

The current syslog messages around service stop/start/restart do not provide enough information as required by the customer. The requirement is to add the following information to the current syslog message: username (who did the action), time, af...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 3 Is a defect

Please add support for Option 82 to AIX DHCP Server Process

Please add support for DHCP option 82 (i.e. the DHCP Relay Agent information option) to the AIX DHCP Server daemon (/usr/sbin/dhcpsd) so that it correctly handles requests from clients that are received via a DHCP relay agent (such as a Juniper ro...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

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