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HDS hdlm support for AIX Live Kernel Upgrade

We require a fully supported AIX Live Kernel Update scenario with HDS HDLM.
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AHAFS modFile event needs to include inode changes

The AHAFS (AIX Event Infrastructure) component of AIX has the ability to track file content modifications. Please add the ability to monitor file inode modifications as well, such as file owner/group and permissions.
almost 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Update version of ISC BIND used for AIX

IBM's present/default version of BIND for AIX is v9.4,...which is considered by vulnerability scanning tool Qualys as being EOL/Obsolete. Indeed the latest version of BIND is v9.11. Although IBM AIX support has confirmed that they are still fully ...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Build OpenSSL packages ffor AIX as relocatable

Sometimes there's a need of having multiple versions of OpenSSL installed on one server due to various application requirements. That's why OpenSSL should be built as relocatable package - so another version of package can be installed into separa...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

577F fc adapter autoconfig attribute

577F fc adapters doesn't have autoconfig attributethe customer could check using lsattr command.So attribute could be modified by#chdev -l fscsiX-a autoconfig=definedbut the way to check it using ODM isn't very handy.The customer wants this attrib...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

SMB (CIFS)

We have been using CIFS (SMB) over a decade. We have been told by IBM that the CIFS driver is version 0.12 and there is no ETA to update to the driver to new version. CIFS is heavily used at the Bank. We have many scripts, processes and applicatio...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX 7.2 Live Update support for purestorage PCM

Please add support for the PureStorage PCM with the AIX 7.2 Live Update feature. Our team will use this feature to further enable ever shrinking maintenance outage periods by patching without downtime. A full description will be attached to this RFE.
almost 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Require Sendmail 8.15.x version

Require IBM supported sendmail version 8.15.X to leverage the features included in the newer version. We want to disable the weak ciphers and allow only TLS
almost 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

AIX Failed Login count file log rotation

It is observed that if a user tries to login to a server using any account, and if it fails to login, its recording a entry in /etc/security/failedlogin file, so, if some one can script this login and keep retying 100's of 1000's of times, it can ...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Updating list of audit events

Customer is looking for a documentation update to the events for auditing. Customer originally opened this DCR in 2014, but it was not moved over when DCR's were migrated to RFE's. Everything from the original information on this DCR request has b...
almost 8 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered