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AIX file defragmentation

AIX file fragmentation reduces the performance and the only way to recover is to backup and restore the data.Defrags command does not defragment files and is not helpful in this situation.
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

empty blocks copied with mklvcopy and migratepv

Empty blocks copied when using mklvcopy, migratepv, mirrorvg
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX support of Drepper SHA512

Submitted on behalf of Adam Moore - UNIX Security Engineering AIX currently supports the use of an SHA512 based password encryption algorithm for the storage of user passwords using a proprietary algorithm based on PKCS #5 v2.1 based encryption st...
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

errpt in Secure by Default SBD

we installed AIX 7.1 in "Secure by default" mode. We noticed that errpt command is not present after SbD installation. We know it can be added by installing "bos.sysmgt.serv_aid" fileset butwe wonder if "errpt" should not be the part of standard S...
over 8 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

Prevent a duplicate PVID from being added to a VG

As can be read in PMR 14682,211,788 the system of our customer had created a PVID (which is a very low chance to happen). That disk was being added to the volume group which caused the failover-node to crash. In some cases extendvg does not preven...
over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Dynamic Partition Name Changes in AIX

Hi IBM, Is it possible to get AIX to dynamically update the LPAR Partition Name as displayed in the lpstat -i output if the LPAR name has been changed on the HMC?
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Exposed libptools library interfaces for customer use

1. Symbol lookups, with all appropriate relocations considered, based on recorded artifacts: for example, gensyms, genld -l and process listing data. I can do this now with a pure Perl implementation I wrote, but that implementation is slow compar...
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Enable Curt for 64 bit

The curt command Core dump with large symbol table. Need to enable curt to work with 64 bit. This is for my customer Bloomberg.
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Add LED to system boot to indicate 'dump still running'

When system is on it way UP and going thru the "system dump". The LPAR status will show "Running"not "Dump in progress".That is why it can cause confusion with our data center when system is not responding from console or any remote connection yet...
over 8 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

Rename option in NIM

When an objet is badly created in nim, it is impossible to rename it.
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

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