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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, ...
over 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 ...
over 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...
over 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...
over 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...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered
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SMB v2 or v3 support in AIX 7

Client wants to mount a Microsoft Windows filesystems onto AIX.In the past he used CIFS which was part of standard AIX. CIFS was based on SMB v1. The latest Windows releases not longer support v1 due to security reason.Therefore we need CIFS integ...
over 7 years ago in AIX 11 Delivered

Splitting Up Dumps into Confidential and Non-Confidential Data

Swiss banking laws do not allow access to bank customer data from abroad. For this reason it is not possible to send dumps outside of Switzerland for analysis by Labs in other countries. We would like a solution whereby dumps can be split up, ensu...
over 7 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

Client is requesting that the HMC not call home when MLXENT HW ERR is logged.

Client is requesting that the HMC not call home when MLXENT HW ERR is logged.
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX watch_config_files script used by installp not call if updates failed

Normaly, nim installp updates for a client will call script watch_config_files script that will validate if files listed in /etc/check_config.files has been change during the updates, and if yes, will list the differences in a file /var/adm/ras/co...
over 7 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

Massive number of installs and deinstalls can corrupt ODM

Large amounts of LPP installs and deinstalls can cause a unrecoverable corruption of the ODM which leaves the AIX system unstable.
over 7 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

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