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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.
over 2 years ago in AIX 2 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
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

AIX live update - dynamic library replacement

RECOMMENDATION: Enhance live update so that running processes utilize the new version of a library without being restarted? CURRENT ISSUE: The Live Update concepts documentation states the following indicating the potential need to restart a proc...
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Expose TTY IHOG and OHOG values to tuning

When working with large amounts of text, it is easy to overwhelm the TTY buffers. This logs TTYHOG OVER-RUN errors. In AIX 3.2, this could be set using an stty command, but that has been removed since. Setting it can now be accomplished via ioctl ...
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Add documentation for NVMe on AIX/VIOS: nvmemgr command

With our new systems 100% NVMe internally we should document for AIX / VIOS the ability to configure the NVMe drives, manage namespaces, etc. IBM i has this documentation, AIX should too since that also covers the Virtual I/O Server. The nvmemgr c...
over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

invscout should report on currently active system firmware, not the accepted one

Currently invscout report is based on the accepted system firmware level (one stored on the permanent side of the hypervisor), instead of the active (booted from). Example: [root@server:/home/root(4)]# lsmcode -A | grep sys0 sys0!system:VL950_105 ...
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future 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

64 bit wc command for 64 bit UTF-8 locales

Issue: ERANGE errors when processing data with 4 byte characters . # perl -e 'print "\xf0\x9f\x98\x80\n"' | wc wc: : Result too large The 32-bit locales and applications can only process the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), from U+0000 to U+FFFF....
over 2 years 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 ...
almost 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

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