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My votes: AIX

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errdemon should survive rootvg outages

RAS improvement for errdemon required to save errlog entries during temporary rootvg outages.
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Support sudo ldap on AIX

sudo-ldap is supported. I see various clients using it. It is in AIX Tools website: http://www.aixtools.net/index.php/sudo-ldap Looks like IBM AIX officially does not support sudo-ldap. The naming service is coming from LDAP and authentication fro...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

Enhancements for AIX Live Update

Would it be technically possible to somehow "push" the AIX Live Update from the PowerVC side to the AIX client, instead of doing the the pvcauth for needed token from AIX client > PowerVC prior to the actual update? I opened a discussion on thi...
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

AIX Live Kernel Update - make mhdisk (mirrored rootvg) optional rather than mandatory

One of the impediments to using AIX Live Update is the number of disks required to achieve it, particularly when performing subsequent updates between reboots. This adds up when you are talking about hundreds of LPARs being managed. Currently, the...
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

LKU log should have a distinct message for failures

The logs for LKU should have a distinct message to help identify if LKU failed. Using the text "error" has multiple places that does not indicate an error. For example:"Informational data related to AIX Live Update. This is not an error.\" getErro...
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

AIX HBA Registers information with Name Server: a) FC-4 TYPEs object (see 7.2); and b) FC-4 Features object (see 7.3).

HPE 3PAR storage subsystem needs the FC4 type info registered in SAN switch. AIX HBA does not perform that so it causes I/O problem and reboots AIX LPARs when it happens.
almost 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Bootable USB flashdrive, AIX Backup, existing mksysb or single ISO image

Enable ability to create a bootable USB flashdrive of AIX OS backup, either from an existing mksysb file or a single large ISO image file.
almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

tcpdump "-i any" option unavailable in AIX tcpdump

In tcpdump man page (https://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump_man.html), we have option to provide "any" as interface (with -i flag), which allows us to listen to all available interface. While in AIX tcpdump(https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/...
over 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Add ARP ping feature to AIX

The command arping is available in Linux and in IBM i.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Customer wants notification of when VGDA corruption occurs prior to a reboot of the system.

Action Taken: - customer says he had vg on A and B, then they migrated to c and d and brought it up fine. - they a had shared luns and on one set of systems those luns had a vg that was varied on and used. On the second set of system that had the ...
about 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration