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make an official guide to installing and configuring oracle performance on aix in several languages

make an official guide to installing and configuring oracle performance on aix in several languages beacause it not clear in oracle website
over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Replace the existing smbc generic mount error with specific errors

Instead of the generic error message that the smbc mount helper prints for almost all mount problems, it should instead print separate messages for each of the various reasons mount operations can fail. For example, a failure to authenticate the u...
about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

nimadm convert JFS to JFS2 in rootvg

nimadm does not support converting JFS file systems to JFS2. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/cgaix/entry/convert_rootvg_file_systems_to_jfs2_using_alt_disk_copy?lang=en
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under 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...
over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Add feature to report size (df) based on quota set on fileset(gpfs) rather than filesystem size for AIX

On system with GPFS filesystems when quotas are enforced for a fileset (other than the root fileset), the numbers reported by the df command are based on the quotas for the fileset (rather than the entire file system). This option affects the df c...
over 4 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

Provide a usable lpstat tool in AIX

In some of our AIX environments we use / want to use printing to remote print servers. For this we configure local print queues. They point to the different print servers, which are sometimes built in interface cards in the printers or external pr...
about 6 years ago in AIX 8 Not under consideration

Need to improve performance of fcntl locking code when many processes are vying for the same lock

In fcntl locking code when waking up blocked processes , optimize the number of processes being woken up to avoid contention Huge documentation within the Support case TS005339308 documentation
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Flag for lsmpio to show Storagecontroller

lsmpio has no switch to identify presenting Storagecontroller. If we migrate Storage (e.g. from SVC1 to SVC2) there is no easy way to make sure, all LUNs have been migrated. We have to find out UID and search on SVC for that ID.It would be helpful...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

AIX Live Kernel Update needs to fail out if the blackout period runs too long

Clients using Live Kernel Update need to see a message on the terminal during the blackout period in LKU that provides some useful information so they are not waiting for the blackout period to end when it is actually stuck and will not end succes...
almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

ksh93 shopt_audit support

We need to be able to log commands used by the ksh93 shell to meet PCI requirements for any user account - specifically the root account. This is accomplished by setting the SHOPT_AUDIT option at compile time for ksh93. We need an IBM supportable ...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

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