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My votes: AIX

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Improve the lrud behavior when free the large amount of memory.

When lrud free the memory, it will enable the interrupt disabled mode and block other threads. When customer runs the time-sensitive applications, it might lead to an application time out and then the transaction failures.
almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Submitted

update the summ published version with some of the internal new details

The currently summ published version (2.0 from 2021) could benefit of a new publishing with some of the apparent improvements in the internal version (specially verbosity about target ports and WWPN being decoded in some vfchost messages). Obvious...
4 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

fix lsof so it will show open files when using Storge Scale

IBM documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.2.1?topic=cluster-restarting-large-storage-scale lists lsof as a way to check for open files when stopping down Storage Scale, yet when you run lsof against a file in Storage Scale, it ...
6 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

redefining functions in header files - do it the right way

When functions in header files need to be redefined (e.g. to get new default behavior),this should NOT be done by just renaming them with a simple '#define func_new func_old'.Instead, macros should be used like it was done for older XL C/C++ compi...
about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Prisma security SW agents on Power

Riyad Bank (and others) requesting Prisma to be installed on Power. Agents to be installed on AIX , VIOS and Linux on Power.
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Request for Implementation of Custom Core Dump Generation in Future AIX Versions as is documented

Dear AIX Development Team, We are writing to bring your attention for an issue we have found out regarding the customization of core dump files generation as documented in this IBM URL https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-core-dump-facility. The ...
about 2 years ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Customer is requesting for new additional functionality of reclaiming space automatically when files are deleted

Customer is requesting for new additional functionality of reclaiming space automatically when files are deleted instead of shrinking fs with chfs reclaim option (normal or fast)
4 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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