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    Modern browser for AIX which supports at least TLS 1.2

    The latest available Firefox for AIX is version 3.6.25 which enables SSL 3 by default, and TLS 1.0 Customers have requested a modern browser on AIXthat can, among other things:- Use TLS1.2- View IBM's Fix Central- View IBM's Knowledge Center IBM s...
    about 8 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

    Port Linux package SSSD into AIX for Active Directory authentication

    There are costed product options that allow user and group management from Active Directory and authentication. SSSD has been ported to different flavors of Linux and to have it working on AIX would provide simplicity and reduced cost.
    over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    Evaluate Asymmetric Access State (ALUA state) on path recovery

    On path recovery an AIX system does not evaluate the ALUA state of the path (which may have changed while there was no communication).
    over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Make MPIO path healthcheck timeout visible

    We have noticed that the healthcheck timeout is different to the rw_timeout, but there is no documentation on how to modify, if it is related to other values or a fix hardcoded value. It would be interesting to make this value known and potentiall...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

    Support for disable a device across reboots, FC-adapter.

    VIO server (and std AIX servers), when boot is on local nvme and additional disk (lets say appsvg) in in SAN storage. The extra disk in "appsvg" is used for verification/troubleshooting plus as extra space for various reasons. When one do an alt_d...
    10 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    OpenSSH installer on AIX to refresh sshd subsystem as a part of post install

    Right now upgrading OpenSSH on AIX does not always automatically refresh the sshd subsystem. This behaviour has been like this for some time - but there is now an additional complication: Upgrading OpenSSH from version 8 to 9 causes sshd to refuse...
    about 2 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

    64 bit wc command for 64 bit UTF-8 locales

    Issue: ERANGE errors when processing data with 4 byte characters . # perl -e 'print "\xf0\x9f\x98\x80\n"' | wc wc: : Result too large The 32-bit locales and applications can only process the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), from U+0000 to U+FFFF....
    over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    NIC fiber light measurement

    Per Networking I/O Development, we do not have an ethernet-adapter based optics dbM measurement tool for AIX other than diagnostics run with wrap plugs to verify the card and its gbic modules. However, per Development, it's not out of reason to re...
    over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    Configuration rules for AIX (like those for VIOS)

    Would it be possible to make the very useful configuration rules function that is avaliable in VIOS avalaible in AIX? This would be very useful for setting customised defaults for different devices within AIX without altering the predefined ODM. W...
    over 2 years ago in AIX 2 Under review

    rw_max_time change to 30

    I want to be able to set the minimum value of "rw_max_time" which is the attribute value of hdisk to 30.
    almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

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