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Check for missing paths and report them during live update preview

geninstall -k -p should check for missing paths and/or disks and provide a warning to the administrator. The warning should alert the administrator that there are either missing disk paths and/or missing disks, or both, and provide some advice/gui...
about 4 years ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

prevent "find: bad status--"

Intermittent problem with "find". If the directory contains thousands of files, sometimes "find" reports "find: bad status". I guess that find does a snapshot of files under provided directory. Then, it "fstat" each file to know if it meets comman...
about 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Live Kernel Update (LKU) with AIX Accounting enabled

Currently LKU (live kernel update) is not possible when using the AIX accounting subsystem.Also stopping the subsystem before the LKU is not possible since the 'aacctdd' kernel extension does not unload properly !Please provide a way to make use o...
about 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

add pcmpath query adapter summary in lsmpio command

We've learned few month ago that SDDPCM will be soon unsupported by IBM. We have to migrate to AIX_PCM but pcmpath command can't manage devices under AIX_PCM. We used to use pcmpath query adapter to quickly check the state of each fscsi device (ch...
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

AIX server time zone is EST5EDT. Need to transfer AIX Syslog entries to remote syslog server in UTC timezone format.

AIX server time zone is EST5EDT. Need to transfer AIX Syslog entries to remote syslog server in UTC timezone format. This is a priority request from InfoSec team. We have found solution for LINUX server whereas on AIX server as per "TS003340201" w...
over 4 years ago in AIX 11 Future consideration

RMC connection through NAT firewall

In an MSP environment there are multiple customers on one system with multiple VLANs. The VLANs are all behind a NAT firewall. From a management point of view, an LPAR should talk to the HMC over RMC through that NAT firewall. The issue in that en...
over 4 years ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

FTP over SSL server on AIX - introduce option on ftpd.cnf for setting passive port range

After PASV mode is set in an FTPS connection, FTPS server will choose a random port in whole ephemeral port range, and send that port number to client in order for FTPS client to establish the data channel connection. So any firewall between clien...
over 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

During an AIX Live update, the disk I/O paths should be distributed for better Source and Surrogate LPAR availability.

During an AIX Live update, the disk I/O paths should be distributed for better Source and Surrogate LPAR availability. Today AIX Live Update keeps only one path on the source LPAR and takes all other paths to the surrogate LPAR (during the live up...
over 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

LKU change of parameters which need normally a reboot

We want to use AIX Live Kernel Update - LKU - with SAP and Oracle 12 / 19 etc.when doing LKU it would be helpful to define a list of parameter AIX should change on the new surrogate Lpar . this should be all parameters starting at HMC for Min/Max ...
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Expose LPM passive WWN to aix OS

I would like to be able to query the inactive WWN for a fiber channel adapter that is used during LPM. Currently fcstat and lscfg only show the active WWN. The inactive WWN can be seen by the HMC but not within AIX on the LPAR.
over 4 years ago in AIX 4 Future consideration

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