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AIX Filesystem shrink monitoring and performance #chfs command

AIX filesystem shrink can take a significant length of time for a large shrink operation (hours). During this time the filesystem is frozen, impacting applications.There are no tools to monitor the progress or to terminate the operation cleanly if...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

sendmail compiled with SASL support

Need to interface with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple E-mail Service (SES), which requires login credentials / authentication to be encrypted. Neither sendmail or sendmail_ssl are currently compiled with SASL support; sendmail_ssl, if that remai...
about 6 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Speed of DLPAR for procs and especially memory in AIX

DLPAR operations in AIX take a long time, especially when adding a huge amount of memory. But also the addition of cores takes a lot of time. In HA cluster scenarios, the idea is to run the passive cluster partner with a minimum of resources and i...
about 4 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

vNIC Takeover needs to much time

vNIC Takeover needs to much time in certain configuration up to 30 sec. According to IBM Support it works as designed.
almost 4 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

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...
about 4 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Disabling eth adapters in AIX

In the current AIX releases (7.x) there is no way to completely disable unused ethernet adapter. This may cause performance degradation when "entstat -d" or "netstat -v" are issued or other tools try to get statistics from this adapter. After syst...
about 4 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Improve disk fencing support during LPM in PowerHA environment

PowerHA supports disk fencing using SCSI-3 reservation mechanism. It was discovered during recent testing with a customer that after LPM, PowerHA node/AIX loses access to disks. This is due to AIX device driver handling of the keys after the LPM c...
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

bash-completion RPM for AIX

Hello, it would be nice and useful to have bash-completion RPM ported to AIX. Bash is already available on AIX toolbox for linux application because a lot of users use it, but right now it's not possible to have custom completion of commands, TAB ...
about 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX rw_timeout =40 didn't work over 491 seconds becaus of current AIX FC behavior

System: IBM AIXActor: Customer needs rw_timeout hit as defined in ODM. Description: There are many redundancy solutions for robust disk I/O availability - redundant HBAs, redundant SAN switches and even redundant servers. But rw_timeout=40 didn't ...
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

The current AIX rw_timeout minium limit 30 seconds is to high/long for modern IT environment.

System: IBM AIXActor: Customer needs rw_timeout minium limit less then 30 seconds. And needs to know hit time along with the rw_timeout. Description: There are many redundancy solutions for robust disk I/O availability - redundant HBAs, redundant ...
about 6 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

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