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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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RFE Notifications for IBM AIX

How to receive RFE notifications about IBM AIX?
almost 9 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.
almost 9 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.
almost 9 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...
almost 9 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 ...
about 9 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

NFSv4 usage in NIM

nimadm exports in phase2 the "/alt_inst" filesystems as nfs3 tothe NIM-server. Today it's not possible to use nfs4 althoughnimadm knows option "-m NFSMountOptions". With nimadm theclient "/alt_inst" filesystems should be exportable as nfs4.
about 9 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Identify an easy Way to query which VIOS server i am connected to (FCS wise) NPIV

Create a command in AIX that will enable me to identify what fibre adapter (Virtual) is connected to which VIO server without having to utilise kdb.
about 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX support for hardware enhanced high precision network time synchronization

Request AbstractPursuant to maximum precision network time sync, the RFE requests capabilities in POWER/AIX be enhanced to include hardware timekeeping and time synchronization, and the ability to audit compliance. This may include, but is not lim...
about 9 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

issues with netcd

netcd is unable to handle the dynamic nature of the GSS (Global Site Selector) based DNS record/ TLL. when the DNS record becomes unavailable and netcd is handling the entry as ‘stale' entry in netcd's cache.When the DNS entry comesback online , n...
about 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

probevue uft probe enhancement

For Probevue - According to the PMR, the current design of the uft probe requires access to shared library text and to segments marked for shared memory. Updates to this design are needed in to handle densely-packed 32-bit address space layout cas...
about 9 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered