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My votes: AIX

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    Persistent virtual adapter ID values (also known as slot numbers) for Live Update operations

    During AIX Live update operations are changed slot values. Please improve customization of Live Update Operation and allow customer to specify virtual slot IDs for the target partition and VIO servers which are operating that partition.
    over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

    High priority login shell during low memory conditions

    Over the years AIX has become very stable, but occasionally there's an AIX system that seems to hang when experiencing low memory/paging conditions. On the system some processes (that don't need to allocate new memory) continue to work happily, pi...
    almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Support of AIX Flash Cache for AIX VM with support of Dual VIOS each VIOS as a FC service

    Want to split the AIX Flash virtual support over VIOS over two VIO to loose only 50% of VIOS Shutdown due to maintenance or VIO outage
    about 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Add protocol SMB 3.1.1 support to SMBC client for AIX

    Currently, SMB 3.0.2 is the only supported protocol by SMBC client for AIX.As more and more cloud and storage providers support Microsoft SMB 3.1.1, it should be great that the SMBC client for AIX supports it.
    almost 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    LLDP support for EtherChannel on AIX / VIOS

    Customers networking department want to have information about the adapter ports connected to their networking switch. When using SEA with EtherChannel beneath these information are provided for only one port. Need to enhance the lldp part on AIX ...
    over 4 years ago in AIX 2 Future consideration

    Please add option to nfs client to let the server manage the group info / equivalent to -g or --manage-gids

    Dear Sir or Madam, With AIX as client to mount NFS Shares users are not able to access data which are shared via NFS. In my case users have more than 16 groups they belong to and need to access their files. Groups can not be eliminated, unfortunat...
    6 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Extend possible NIM resource types or attributes for optional backupios_flags to backup VIOS

    In a NIM environment to backup VIOS type ios_mksysb the functionality to create nim_resource.tar file is missing.Solution to reinstall a corrupted system from HMC by using the installios command created from NIM environment.
    8 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    HANIM extend takeover resource types i.e. vios

    In a HANIM environment the takeover functionality is limited to resource type standalone i.e. classic AIX client.
    8 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Harmonize procedure of managing configfiles during update of filesets

    From an old case we noticed, that procedure how config files are treated during update is fileset-specific. Procedure should be same for each and every config file and it should be easy to check what was done with the config file. It should cover ...
    over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Implement RFC3442 to include Classless Static Route Option 121 in DHCP

    We would like to use the DHCP option 121. This option is introduced in the RFC3442. IBM confirmed that this RFC us currently not implemented. The introduction of this RFC3442 makes our life much easier, because we don't need to wait for the interf...
    11 months ago in AIX 2 Future consideration

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