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Need new Era year (GENGO) support for AIX Japanese environment

Japan's Emperor Akihito will step down in April 2019. His abdication will mark the end of the Heisei era, and he would be immediately succeeded by his son Crown Prince Naruhito on 1 May, which would start a new imperial era.https://www.bbc.com/new...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Allow AIXPCM to health check closed luns

NEW FORMAT "PMR": TS001111225 (This RFE webform is expecting the old format and rejects the new one) Requesting: Add the option for AIXPCM to perform path health checks on all attached multi-path storage regardless of status. This will permit the ...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 7 Delivered

sh/ksh support for large files

/bin/sh is unable to handle large files. this causes problems with shell archives and other scripts that need to interface with large files where /bin/sh is used.
about 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Update Zh_HK Zh_HK.BIG5-HKSCS to HKSCS-2016

It is necessary to update the HKSCS locale to the latest versionReference:HKSCS-2004 which includes 4941 characters.HKSCS-2008 added 68 additional charactersHKSCS-2016 added 24 more characters.
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Enhancement to ignore ?AllowPKCS12keystoreAutoOpen? on the destination AIX server for non-AIX ssh clients request

The point is ssh tunnel needs authentication to complete before data transfer can take place. If AllowPKCS12keystoreAutoOpen is set to yes on the server,then the keys will be sent by server to the client. The client does not know how to handle the...
about 7 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

AIX SAN adapter driver support for new RDP ELS

Unfortunately, the AIX adapter driver still does not support the new RDP ELS - even on the newer SAN adapters.Are there any plans to implement support for the RDP ELS as this is very common by all SAN vendor.
about 7 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

update sulog timestamp to include year

Timestamp on sulog file only shows month, day and time (mm/dd hh:mm) information excluding year. For purpose of aix auditing we require full date information i.e timestamp in sulog should include year, month, day and time
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

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.
about 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...
about 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 ...
about 7 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

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