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Enhance multibos preview to check for available space in rootvg

Please enhance multibos so that the preview operation will perform some kind of "required space" calculation for physical partitions in rootvg.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

New command to substitue for emgr -l for read-only, non-root access

Right now if you want to use the emgr command to list efix data for automated data collection, you have to give root level access to the command or another script that runs emgr. Please consider adding a discrete command that only reads emgrdata f...
6 months ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

Preview tool requested for chfs and allocp

A way to run chfs / allocp in a preview mode would be extremely useful. It has been found that attempts to expand striped logical volumes can fail in seemingly random fashion. This makes the success of the operation unpredictable which can be cost...
almost 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

sysdumpdev -e shows more accurate value

Sometimes DMPCHK_TOOSAMLL is seen in errpt.The estimated dump size is calculated with various factors. The one of the factor is related to max file table size and it depend on the number of SRADs. So if the number of SRADs of system is increasing/...
over 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Update of allocp needed to permit usage of all available space in VG

The layout of the logical volume on the existing luns is providing a constraint that is restricting which disks can be used for expansion. Those luns are not being counted in the expansion and allocp produces the message: 0516-404 allocp: This sys...
almost 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Monitor and display inline log usage

Provide the capability of monitoring the usage of inline logs. Early detection, prior to log filling/wrapping, should prevent file system lock ups.
almost 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

invscout should report on currently active system firmware, not the accepted one

Currently invscout report is based on the accepted system firmware level (one stored on the permanent side of the hypervisor), instead of the active (booted from). Example: [root@server:/home/root(4)]# lsmcode -A | grep sys0 sys0!system:VL950_105 ...
almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

When the GB18030-2022 standard for AIX will be released

GB18030-2022 is a national mandatory standard that has been officially implemented since August 1 this year. As a formal state-owned enterprise, the client is also required by the superiors to enforce this standard.
12 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

mksysb backup restore with Tape Device

SAS and FC attached tape do not support boot because it needs atape device driver and atape device driver does not support boot.SCSI attached tape does support boot because SCSI attached tape support AIX native tape device driver , so it is the on...
over 4 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

nimadm upgrade with cachefs fails to install efix because it can't expand a filesystem. While installp can expand a filesystem. It would improve the upgrade proccess if emgr could do the same.

Because of the issue with emgr it is neccessary after the upgrade to boot a lpar from from altinst_rootvg and then install the missing efix, so applications cannot start.Without the limitation the lpar would be started with all the fixes and it wo...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release