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LVM: Add ability to give up slow mirror

Add the ability to mark a physical volume or a complete mirror pool as missing, so that lvm could start handling stale pps. As "chpv -v r" is already there, maybe provide a force option to be able to deactivate pvs that hold open lvs that are mirr...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Enhance unmirrorvg for mirror pools

Contrary to 'mirrorvg' the 'unmirrorvg' command is not aware of Mirror Pools. Hence before removing a mirror copy of a LV the Mirror Pools need to be removed separately (with 'chlv -M ...'). It might be a good idea to have 'unmirrorvg' enhanced to...
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

enable NetApp bootluns for live update AIX 7.2

we have generally bootluns via NPIV located on netapp filerduring live update test, our bootluns pointed an error geninstall -k -p -D 1430-095 FAILED: some disks are not supported. [sblorax1009].root:/root # lsattr -El hdisk1PCM PCM/friend/NetAppD...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Required Samba V4.x support with Microsoft ADS (Active Directory Server) with Kerberos authentication

Samba V4.x running on AIX OS - need Microsoft ADS (Active Directory Server) support with Kerberos authentication. Active Directory support for Samba used to be there in older versions of the product such as V3.x - however with the newer V4.x versi...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Path Failure in Closed Disk Due to Multiple Processes Acessing Adapter For Query

In our server paths are failing when one process is already opening an adapter and another process try to open the same adapter. Please refer the PMR 24147,000,834. In this case paths are marked as failed when lspv was not able to query through an...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Restricted mode for errpt

We would like the ability to restrict the use of errpt to errpt(1) to privileged users - Ideally, we would like to prevent non-privledged users (i.e., non-root) from running errpt(1) to avoid our users from viewing the AIX error log.
over 7 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

Kernel supplies wrong adapter speeds

Both topas and nmon report the 40Gbit Mellanox adapter speed at 10Gbit. This is incorrect and needs updating. This applies to latest VIOS levels and AIX levels. It appears to be a general topas and nmon issue.
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

AIX live update for vxfs filesystem

Please enable AIX live update support on systems got Veritas DMP/VXVM/VXFS infoscale products.
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Firmware-assisted Dump on Veritas DMP multipath software

currently firmware assisted dump work only on MPIO managed system. Please enable support for Veritas DMP managed systems too.
over 7 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

RSCT provide a diagnostic utility to ensure correct UDP connectivity on all interfaces to all cluster members.

For RSCT - Reliable Scalable Cluster Technology, on AIX, RHEL, and other platforms where RSCT is supported. A command line diagnostic utility that confirms UDP connectivity on all interfaces to all members of the cluster. The command line utility ...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered