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64-bit support in AIX maintenance mode

If AIX is started in the maintenance mode to repair the system, 64-bit programs can't start by default: "Cannot run a 64-bit program until the 64-bit environment has been configured." The usual way is to start /etc/methods/cfg64 if filesystems are...
over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

secldapclntd should respect LDAP_OPT_SECURITY_PROTOCOL and related settings

The IBM Directory Server idsldap libraries support the following environment variables: LDAP_OPT_SSL_CIPHER LDAP_OPT_SSL_CIPHER_EX LDAP_OPT_SECURITY_PROTOCOL However, secldapclntd does not. It would be helpful for secldapclntd to respect these o...
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Configure FTPS using port 990 and FTP with port 20

It is useful from security preceptive to use FTP secure. As our customer wants to configure this FTPS with port 990 to transfer that data from AS400 to AIX.
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Display AIX LPAR "Variable Capacity Weight" in 'topas -C' view

Please enhance the 'topas -C' view to display the "Variable Capacity Weight" for each AIX partition in the Cross-partition panel view. Or provide a new option, along with -C, to display this information. The "Variable Capacity Weight" can be displ...
about 7 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

Add mksysb flag for barebone boot image

Opening RFE from a recent case situation. Customer has an environment where the mksysbs taken of all production LPARs are over 30GB in size. Recommendation is to add a flag to the mksysb command that only backs up the system critical FS/LVs and fi...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

snap should collect /etc/filesystems file

Currently, the snap command does not collect the /etc/filesystems file when you run snap -ac. It would be nice if we get that file to debug any filesystems problems.
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

telefork() call for AIX

telefork() call allows to move a single running process to another server. Details about Linux realization - https://thume.ca/2020/04/18/telefork-forking-a-process-onto-a-different-computer/
over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

"Although the 'prtgblconfig -s ERRMSGCONTROL=ALLOFF' setting can be used to prevent informative messages from being written t

"Although the 'prtgblconfig -s ERRMSGCONTROL=ALLOFF' setting can be used to prevent informative messages from being written to user terminals, qdaemon will still (by it's usage of the systell/sysmsg functions) write messages to /dev/console, and I...
about 5 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Virtualization of crypto on AIX

Virtualization of crypto adapter for System p similar to what System z has today.
about 10 years ago in AIX 6 Not under consideration

QID 11 Hidden RPC Service

QID = 11 Title=Hidden RPC Service Severity=2Impact = Unauthorized users can build a list of RPC services running on the host. If they discover vulnerable RPC services on the host, they then can exploit them.Threat= The Portmapper/Rpcbind listens o...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration