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iostat unable to function in large DASD environment

the iostat calls made by the AIX system take too long to return in environments with very large numbers of disks, resulting in system hangs
over 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

MPIO support over AIX ISCSI

MPIO is not supported and does not function on ISCSI connections for AIX. This means that we cannot get redundancy for ISCSI boot drives. We have had to create a manual watchdog script to delete and recreate storage interfaces when the connectivit...
over 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Change disk status if a LV is in stale status

At our client Robert Bosch we were faced with the situation that a write error to a disk in a mirrored VG resulted in a stale partition but did not take the disk offline. Therefore the LPAR crashed. There should be a flag to configure a disk (or V...
over 9 years ago in AIX 5 Delivered

Include Patch for GSSAPI key exchange support in AIX version of OpenSSH

IBM Power Systems customer Bloomberg requests that AIX include the Patch for GSSAPI key exchange support in the AIX version of OpenSSH. All other commercial Unix operating systems used by this customers contain this patch as well as major commerci...
over 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

AIX Support for Active Directory Password Expiration Notification

Our customer has LDAP implemented on approximately 130 AIX LPAR's. They need the ability to be able to be prompted for a password to be changed and the ability to successfully change from AIX for their Active Directory ID's. We have been provided ...
over 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

More Robust UUID Generator on AIX

This is for Nationwide. They use WTX and under the covers on AIX they call the uuid_gen utility on AIX. What they noticed is that if there is a heavy volume the uniques is not there, meaning there are duplicate uuids. This causes issues with downs...
over 9 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

JFS2 support in nimadm

When you use nimadm with the option to make local caching, it uses jfs to locally create filessystems in the volume group given in the command line. would it be possible to use jfs2 isntead of JFS ? regards, Johann Klotz
over 9 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Make AIX and VIO RFE's viewable.

Currently, both AIX and VIO RFE's are automatically marked private. This defeats the purpose of being able to view an existing RFE and allowing our customers to vote on it so it can have higher priority for level 3 to review.
over 9 years ago in AIX 6 Delivered

nmon numperm fixed to match vmstat

The nmon numperm does not match the vmstat output but it is in the libperfstat library so its an easy fix.nmon:FileSystemCache │(numperm) 6.8% # vmstat -v|grep numperm 7.6 numperm percentage
over 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Better NFSv4 support on NIM (maybe make default version choosable)

The standard nfs version in a nim environment seems to be nfsv3. In many objects you can use or change the version to nfsv4. We only can use nfsv4, because its firewall-fiendly and allowed in our environment. There are still some places where nfsv...
over 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

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