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AIX IPSEC multiple network interfaces

My customer (a bank) needs to implement IPSec between AIX VMs. However IPSec today only supports one network interface. Support for up to three (today) is requested.
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

LDAP Security with gidNumber 0

Hi IBM,The AIX implementation of LDAP allows an LDAP administrator to set a gidNumber of zero to an LDAP group, which overrides the AIX /etc/group file. Therefore, an LDAP user in a group with ID of 0, is given system group privileges on AIX. LDAP...
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Request to set/define SysName in /etc/snmpd.conf

Request to define/set sysName in /etc/snmpd.conf.
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

It would be convenient to have LLDP available in AIX in order to identify the switch/port our network adapters are connected

It would be convenient to have LLDP available in AIX in order to identify the switch/port our network adapters are connected in. Following cables from server network port to switch is sometimes very difficult and even impossible in some cases. LLD...
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

topasrec data for etherchannel adapter physical ports

topasrec reports data only for etherchannel adapters and not report the data for its physical ports."topas -E" reports data for etherchannel adapter physical ports but cannot be recorded to file (interactive only).
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]"? Support Regexp Adaptation Under Heterogeneous Collation Rules

1. A regex pattern is used by a regular expression engine for attempting to match in input text. A pattern consists of one or more character literals, operators, or constructs. 2. In regex, the character classes in regular expressions are an extre...
over 5 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

SAN Tape Support in AIX LKU Live Kernel update

We using Spectrum protect LAN Free Backup with SAN NPIV Tapes for backup big Oracle SAP Databases fast. Currently there is no Live Kernel update possible because of the missing support of LKU with NPIV Tapes.
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX Filesystem shrink monitoring and performance #chfs command

AIX filesystem shrink can take a significant length of time for a large shrink operation (hours). During this time the filesystem is frozen, impacting applications.There are no tools to monitor the progress or to terminate the operation cleanly if...
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Keep existing lvmo options after exportvg

When lvmo option is set on a VG (i.e. pv_min_pbuf parameter) and the VG is exported and reimported on the same or on another LPAR .
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX - Integrate Python programming language on AIX base operating system

Integrate Python programming language on AIX base operating system.
over 5 years ago in AIX 5 Delivered