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auditpr -v enhancement

Issue: When using the command auditpr –v, each event is output as two distinct lines. The first line contains the audit event, time, user, command, etc. The second line contains critical trail details about the event. This two line format prevents...
about 8 years ago in AIX 14 Delivered

pv_pbuf_count reset after exportvg

Patrice Quet - 33(1) 58 50 69 78It is possible to modify pv_pbuf_count value using lvmo command for a specific VG.This value is kept into the ODM oif the concerned LPAR (CuAt)After exportvg and importvg of that VG, pv_pbuf_count is resetted to def...
about 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

AIX support of RPD probe on Brocade switches

Connected to Brocade G620 16G fibre switch According to IBM: We are getting the following: "The FCA_ERR6 with sense data of 0x68A indicated that we are receiving unrecognized ELS from the fabric with N_Port IDs of FFFC36 and FFFC40. This message i...
about 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX alt_disk_copy command should detect a rootvg with two boot logical volumes.

When the AIX alt_disk_copy command is run against a rootvg containing multiple logical volumes of type 'boot', the new copy of the rootvg is unbootable. The alt_disk_copy command could easily detect this error and fail with an error message. I'm w...
about 8 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

viostat does not report statistics for SSP LU backed VTD

Customer Raiffesen Schwez reported via PMR 08673,112,848 that iostat is not reporting statistics for SSP LU backing devices.This is something they needed to debug an I/O performance issue. We discussed this with Mike Cyr who thought this is not re...
about 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

RFE Notifications for IBM AIX

How to receive RFE notifications about IBM AIX?
about 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX Live Kernel Update - autofs support

AIX Live Update doesn't work on systems with mounts of the type "autofs" although these are just created by the automount daemon and do not affect any critical issue for Live Update.
about 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

bos.cifs_fs.rte code needs updating on AIX

The best way that we have found to connect windows systems and our AIX systems is via a cifs mount of the shared Windows directory. We need the cifs filesets to be updated to accept new security protocols. i.e. ntlmv2, ntlmssp. Please do this for us.
about 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Missing CCSID 850/858 locale Settings for AIX 7.x

Missing CCSID 850/858 locale Settings for AIX 7.x Please note: A similar request has been already filed to the TXSERIES Group in August 2016 (RFE 92875).On 30th of November 2016 we have been informed, that this RFE needs to be addressed to the AIX...
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

OpenSSH Match LocalPort

OpenSSH 6.1/6.1p1 (2012-08-29) introduced The Match directive now supports matching on the local (listen) address and port upon which the incoming connection was received via LocalAddress and LocalPort clauses. I would like to use this feature on ...
over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered