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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.
over 8 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.
over 8 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...
over 8 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...
over 8 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...
over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX DBX enhancements to handle vector data types

add support in AIX DBX for vector data types. See referenced PMR for additional details.
over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX tprof enhancement - Tick reports grouped by process name

Using this command:tprof -l -p /bb/bin/m_wsrusr.tsk -vskeujz -r tprof After collecting a trace with the following:/usr/bin/trace -adf -M -L 80000000 -T 80000000 -J tprof -j 2ff,234 -Call -r PURR -o /bb/pm/tprof.task/tprof.080814_104903/tprof.trc T...
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Provide a method to de-reference two dimensional array with the mix of type casting and array subscript

Initially Bloomberg reported that they were not able to access values using array subscript after explicitly casting the variable. We analyzed the problem and found that there was one level of extra de-referencing. Hence, we have removed the extra...
over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Syslog with RFC 5424 support

Syslog with RFC 5424 support
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Request that an option added to alt_disk_mksysb to make an attempt at rebuilding the alternate disk boot image

Request an enhancement to alt_disk_mksysb (or alternatively alt_rootvg_op -St) that would force an attempt at rebuilding the alternate disk's boot image. In the referenced PMR, the use case was to take a troubled rootvg image from a Production LPA...
over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

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