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Request that an option added to alt_disk_mksysb to make an attempt at rebuilding the alternate disk boot image

Request an enhancement to alt_disk_mksysb (or alternatively alt_rootvg_op -St) that would force an attempt at rebuilding the alternate disk's boot image. In the referenced PMR, the use case was to take a troubled rootvg image from a Production LPA...
over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

lsccfg scans all devices even when -l option is used.

lsccfg scans all devices even when -l option is used.
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

NIM HA resource synchronization enhancements

• The current NIM HA feature provides resource synchronization as a single "atomic" operation. Meaning, the sync is sequential, cannot be iterative, and will error when resource duplication is unable to complete as part of the manual "push" operat...
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Update BIND in AIX

We use AIX as our DNS backbone and all our DNS Servers are running on AIX. Now we need features in BIND that have been released many years ago (e. g. DNSSEC), but AIX 7.2 still ships BIND 9.4.1, the same as AIX 7.1 and AIX 6.1 (!). Even BIND 9.8 w...
over 8 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

IPTRACE and TCPDUMP need to record in PCAPNG format

PCAPNG is the new format being used by wireshark to view network traffic. Encoding iptraces and tcpdumps in this format will allow better manipulation of packet trace files by customers and network support personnel at IBM and/or worldwide.
over 8 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

AIX jfs2 scsi unmap support

jfs2 does not support scsi unmap feature
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Scalability for lsdevinfo when there are a large number of devices in the ODM

lsdevinfo can take a long time to run >30 minutes in large configurations. This impacts the HMC in several areas. The command lsdevinfo is not used by lshwres alone but by many other functions on HMC including the UI, REST API, PowerVM, NEO... ...
about 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

MPIO support over AIX ISCSI

MPIO is not supported and does not function on ISCSI connections for AIX. This means that we cannot get redundancy for ISCSI boot drives. We have had to create a manual watchdog script to delete and recreate storage interfaces when the connectivit...
about 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

AIX Support for Active Directory Password Expiration Notification

Our customer has LDAP implemented on approximately 130 AIX LPAR's. They need the ability to be able to be prompted for a password to be changed and the ability to successfully change from AIX for their Active Directory ID's. We have been provided ...
about 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

More Robust UUID Generator on AIX

This is for Nationwide. They use WTX and under the covers on AIX they call the uuid_gen utility on AIX. What they noticed is that if there is a heavy volume the uniques is not there, meaning there are duplicate uuids. This causes issues with downs...
about 9 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

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