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My votes: AIX

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    Enable IBM Security Identity Manager to manage AIX RBAC roles

    Currently it's possible to add AIX RBAC roles to a user in IBM Security Identity Manager. However, it is not possible to define a default role for the same user. This missing function should be added.
    almost 3 years ago in AIX 2 Future consideration

    Mitigate security risk VOLATILE TE - tsd entries after efix installation

    Why is this necessary? After applying an efix (for example security fixes) the TE (Trusted Execution) tsd.dat is modified and stanza are replace with keyword VOLATILE. This happens for the replaced binaries (executables) and libraries, that were r...
    about 1 year ago in AIX 2 Future consideration

    Enhance lsmpio showing both storages in an policy-based HA environment (mirroring)

    In an AIX VM using a FS9500 environment with policy-based HA it is only possible with lsmpio to see the primary storage node of the mirroring relation in the FS9500. It should be possible to see both storages of that relation. This is especially i...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Storage space reclamation over vSCSI

    AIX supports space reclamation with various storage systems over NPIV. Customers using vSCSI for good reasons also want to use this feature with storage systems especially with IBM Storwize V7000 Gen2+ and FlashSystem 7200.
    over 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Add NFS v4.1 and NFS v4.2 support for mounting on clients

    There are supposedly security and stability enhancements in NFSv4.1 and v4.2. Also, the IBM product MQ suggests using NFSv4.1
    about 2 years ago in AIX 5 Future consideration

    Add Linux systemd support to AIX

    The Linux distributions moved away from using inittab. All new linux distributions and applications are using systemd now.
    almost 3 years ago in AIX 4 Future consideration

    Improved method to securely verify AIX filesets and install images

    Currently, the only way to securely verify AIX filesets is during an install operation with the chsignpolicy command set, but even this requires installing the bos.rte.install and bos.dsc filesets in order to obtain the fileset signatures. AIX sho...
    over 2 years ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

    Improve smbc performance with multiple threads

    When multiple threads access an smbc share, individual threads may pause for long periods of time while one thread seems to have almost exclusive access to the share.
    over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Check for missing paths and report them during live update preview

    geninstall -k -p should check for missing paths and/or disks and provide a warning to the administrator. The warning should alert the administrator that there are either missing disk paths and/or missing disks, or both, and provide some advice/gui...
    over 5 years ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

    add pcmpath query adapter summary in lsmpio command

    We've learned few month ago that SDDPCM will be soon unsupported by IBM. We have to migrate to AIX_PCM but pcmpath command can't manage devices under AIX_PCM. We used to use pcmpath query adapter to quickly check the state of each fscsi device (ch...
    almost 6 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

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