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AIX

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    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 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

    live update AIX7.2 LKU Minimum memory

    I know AIX need at least 2 Go memory, all of our LPARs have more that 2 Go Online MemoryFor an obscure historical reason, our old LPARs have just 1 Go minimum memory .We cannot change this "profil" attribut without stop and restart theses LPARs , ...
    over 4 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 8 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

    Secondary Dump Device for Firmware-assisted Dump

    Currently AIX does only support a primary dump device forfirmware-assisted dump configurations. This RFE requests the option to define a secondary dump device for firmware-assisted dump configurations.
    about 9 years ago in AIX 1 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 8 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    login messages should be seen with username instead of userid

    Syslog reports: aixtest unix: The privilege command /usr/bin/vmstat, is executed by user with id 205 it would be helpful to see the username instead - even the best admin has not all userids in mind
    about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Automate add ldap user id in /etc/security/user if id not in default krb5 auth_domain when user first logs in.

    See Case number TS005500656.Ldap login fails anytime a ldap user in krb5 domain other than default domain attempts first time login. We have to manually add entry in /etc/security/user – for example:joesmith:auth_domain = “KRB.DOMN2.COM”Please aut...
    over 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future 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...
    almost 6 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    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 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    64-bit Dtfile for CDE

    AIX LPARS with Linux NFS servers cannot use the CDE graphical file manager (dtfile) to manage 64-bit file systems. Cause: In getdirent(), the inode number and cookie size is checked. It they are 64 bit, but the application is 32 bit, an EOVERFLOW...
    over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

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