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AIX find command fails to exclude namefs filesystems with the -fstype jfs2 flag

When using the AIX find command to limit searches to JFS2 filesystems (-fstype jfs2), namefs mounts are not excluded, eg. #find / -fstype jfs2 -name foo will search jfs2 AND any namefs mounts.
over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

AIX rsyslog and omelasticsearch plugin

Include omelasticsearch plugin into the rsyslog web download package. This is a needed plugin for Humio integration, Humio is an IBM OEM offering.
almost 3 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

WPAR for 7.1 on 7.2

System: Power 9Actor: AIX 7.1 dependency on application We need some information for WPAR solution.We have majority of server running on AIX 7.2, customer wants to keep all their server on AIX 7.2 but Due to some application dependency there are s...
almost 3 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Ability to run fsck against alt_inst rootvg

We use alt_disk extensively throughout our enterprise. Recently we had an issue with a corrupted root disk. I would like to be able to do reboot the system from an alternate rootvg and be able to run fsck against the original rootvg without having...
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Live Kernel Update (LKU) with AIX Accounting enabled

Currently LKU (live kernel update) is not possible when using the AIX accounting subsystem.Also stopping the subsystem before the LKU is not possible since the 'aacctdd' kernel extension does not unload properly !Please provide a way to make use o...
over 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Encrypted bootable AIX mksysb Tape

As confirmed in IBM ticket: TS001985362, currently there's no encryption available for mksysb to tape. We'd like to put up this feature request for the encryption feature to be available in the bootable mksysb tape for AIX.
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

RSTC and DynamicRM Debian support

Debian support officialy ppc64el architecture since Debian 10. It's works fine on LPAR under PowerVM , but IBM not provide RSCT, DynamicRM, System Resource Controller and Service RM for debian. We must install ubuntu .deb packages from https://lau...
12 months ago in AIX 4 Future consideration

Command-line program to expose perfstat_bridgedadapter stats

It would be nice if there was a command-line program that exposed the data from perfstat_bridgedadapter and annotated it with the vSwitch and VLAN(s) for the virtual side. it's not that hard except for the vSwitch/VLAN(s) where there isn't a docum...
almost 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Automated JFS2 filesystem size growth/shrink

Would like the JFS2 filesystem implementation to be changed so it automatically grows or shrinks based on customer-defined percentages of minimum or maximum size.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Provide a secure AIX provisioning process

Modify the AIX provisioning process so that TFTP and NFS are not required and AIX use HTTPS or another secure protocol.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

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