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AIX

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SUMA setup

we need SUMA to have automated scripts as cronjobs. we also need a GUI version of the SUMA usage and not memorising commands to carry out download. we also need SUMA to be able to download ISO images from ESS sites and not only accessing fixcentral.
about 4 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

AIX System Dump Collection process should be enhanced to capture required data

AIX System Dump Collection process should be enhanced to capture required data for any crash analysis. Every time there is systems hung or crash, only feedback we get is SNAP did not capture system DUMP. we have all hosts with "Firmware assisted -...
about 4 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration
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AIX secldapclntd and LDAP load module should successfully recognize and interpret the FreeIPA time stamp format

FreeIPA LDAP server, also know as Red Hat Identity Management, software stores password change time stamps in this format: krbLastPwdChange: 20200929123058Z That appears to be a YYYMMDDhhmmss format. AIX's secldapclntd LDAP client and LDAP load mo...
about 4 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Enhance AIX audit subsystem with audit-specific remote logging

A feature of Linux and Solaris is the auditd daemon for logging audit events. Auditd has the ability to forward audit events to a remote auditd logger for centralised logging of audit events. AIX has no ability except through syslog, which, due to...
about 4 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

ISCSI Media Changer Driver Needed

AIX is missing support for ISCSI media changers. After configuring /etc/iscsi/targets to enable iscsi connectivity for remote tape drives and media changers, we get the following error after running 'cfgmgr' ****************** no stderr **********...
about 4 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Redesign of software downloads

This is intended to encompass all IBM downloads for software, firmware and even the mdt iso.We need a better software distribution model that can allow for a CLI session to be used to select and download installs/patches for whatever version the u...
about 4 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Checksum file for all downloads

It's time to have sha checksum files (a standard format checksum file with list of sums and files) for each set of files for download with fix central or entitled software.This should be a minimum for package distribution so that the files can be ...
about 4 years ago in AIX 2 Future consideration

Snap with anonymized data

For security reasons, it is becoming more and more complicated for the customer to provide SNAP to support teams when needed.Mainly because these files contain IP addresses, hostnames and binary files.In fact, in companies, customers have modified...
about 4 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Problem whit the discs paramitters on AIX 7.2 TL5 SP2

we have found that upgrading to AIX 7.2 TL5 SP2 changes the disk policies. We think that this is a big problem, because we manage hundreds of servers, and if we change the reserve_policy with chdev, then every time a technician adds a disks to a c...
about 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Informix ESQL/C ifx_var_getdata() should do charset conversion when binding with CLVCHARPTRTYPE

Sorry for the IBM AIX product name but this is about IBM/HCL Informix and I can't find the product name in the list... Platforms: Linux Debian 10.7 or Windows 10Informix server: IDS-14.10.FC5Informix client: CSDK 4.50.FC5DB_LOCALE = en_us.utf8CLIE...
about 4 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration