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MPIO needs to take path response time into account

System: AIX 7Event: Degraded response time in one path, impacts the overall performance of the other paths of the same hdisk. MPIO is used to access our disks, running with algorithm shortest-queue, in the event of having a slow path (with no fc e...
about 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

RMC connection through NAT firewall

In an MSP environment there are multiple customers on one system with multiple VLANs. The VLANs are all behind a NAT firewall. From a management point of view, an LPAR should talk to the HMC over RMC through that NAT firewall. The issue in that en...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

Automatic Disk space reclamation option for alt_rootvg_op command

When freeing up saved rootvg with alt_rootvg_op command it would be very helpful to add an additional option for doing automatic space reclamation to the disk subsystem where the alt_rootvg resides on.
over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

Need ability to sync from AIX File system cache in memory to disk when needed

When having filesystems with multiple TB of size and have a big read/update activity depending on the size of VM and his %Maxperm when shut down AIX and it comes to the umount point it might take hours before everyting is synched to disk. It shoul...
almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

LUN_RESET delay/timeout after I/O timeout should be a customisable value

We have noticed a significant impact in terms of IO paused after IO timeouts since the introduction of IJ07805 / IJ07842 / IJ10537. We consider that the new timers added to the LUN Reset should be part of the ODM definition for the disk class in o...
over 5 years ago in AIX 0 Not under consideration

sendmail configuration needs authentication to work

sendmail configuration needs authentication to work from the company's smtp server. i have been informed AIX does not support authentication on sendmail. can you please work around this so it can be achievable.
about 5 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

lsdev should show the correct storage type

lsdev shows for an FS9500 storage (and also other newer storages) still "IBM 2076 FC disk", which is very old and missleading. The command should give the correct type, for example 4666 for an FS9500 storage. $ lsdev -Cl hdisk420hdisk420 Available...
6 months ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

AIX/PowerSC Trusted Execution (TE) vulnerability

A script can still be run on an AIX system where trusted execution (TE) has been enabled, even if TE is enabled with CHKSCRIPT=YES etc.Even if script "my_script" is not in the TSD, it can be executed by ksh ./my_scriptor similar variation / shell....
over 3 years ago in AIX 5 Future consideration

Hitting a limitation and if any applications area accessing /dev/kmem during an LKU, it will cause it to fail.

Please find the below investigation & work around report for live update, and let me know if any concerns, thanks.. @Two type of issues stopping our Live update project:- 1- The following process stopping ( /dev/kem Java & machine.jar (App...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Enable IBM Security Identity Manager to manage AIX RBAC roles

Currently it's possible to add AIX RBAC roles to a user in IBM Security Identity Manager. However, it is not possible to define a default role for the same user. This missing function should be added.
almost 2 years ago in AIX 2 Future consideration