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NPIV VFC driver change request

AIX NPIV VFC driver must be more aggressive in error recovery in cases where VIOS is not servicing commands in a timely manner. The issue can be easily recreated by stopping the VIOS in kdb.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 6 Delivered

sendmail compiled with SASL support

Need to interface with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple E-mail Service (SES), which requires login credentials / authentication to be encrypted. Neither sendmail or sendmail_ssl are currently compiled with SASL support; sendmail_ssl, if that remai...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

The current AIX rw_timeout minium limit 30 seconds is to high/long for modern IT environment.

System: IBM AIXActor: Customer needs rw_timeout minium limit less then 30 seconds. And needs to know hit time along with the rw_timeout. Description: There are many redundancy solutions for robust disk I/O availability - redundant HBAs, redundant ...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

fileplace does not display ABNR block

fileplace doesn't show ABNR (Allocated But Not Recorded), and accessing the sparse file at theoffset would simply return zeroes whereas directly accessing the disk would return valid data. Highly recommend that a new flag should be suppliedso that...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Include snapshot output in filesystem snap data

We need information in the filesystem portion of the snap command to identify which JFS2 filesystems have snapshot logical volumes. Currently it is not possible to determine this from snap data.
about 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Make installp more intelligent re: Trusted Executition policies - currently TE=ON prevents any actions with installp

installp process examines the TE policies before taking any action. Once the policy "TE=ON" any action to install or uninstall software is blocked. The message is:Installation cannot proceed as Trusted Execution Checks are enabled.Disable the TE, ...
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

bos.cifs needs SMBv3

AIX needs to refresh bos.cifs to at least 10 year old protocol versions. SMBv1 is insecure and has been dropped by every other major operating system except AIX. Here is the real reason now. IBM says Cloud, or bust. Cloud CIFS mounts, at least in ...
about 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

LVM hardening to prevent non-detection of bad blocks in mirrored LVs

LVM mirroring can delay detection of errors on the secondary copy until the primary copy fails - leading to outages. Particularly with parallel or parallel/sequential policy and LVs with low write rates, the disk with the second copy gets relative...
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Implement support for SMBv3 in bos.cifs_fs.rte

Since Windows16 doesn't support SMBv1, there is no chance to mount Windows16-Shares via CIFS on an AIX-Lpar, because the latest bos.cifs_fs version only works with SMBv1.SMBv2 and SMBv3 are not supported.We would appriciate, if bos.cifs_fs.rte wou...
about 7 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Kerberos client and LAM compatible with Windows RODC

We are requesting a build of the krb5.client fileset and associated loadable authentication module based off Kerberos 1.9.4 or higher which supports the Name-Type field in a a TGS-REQ to a read only domain controller. https://social.technet.micros...
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

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