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FTP over SSL server on AIX - introduce option on ftpd.cnf for setting passive port range

After PASV mode is set in an FTPS connection, FTPS server will choose a random port in whole ephemeral port range, and send that port number to client in order for FTPS client to establish the data channel connection. So any firewall between clien...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Concurrent Update of ifixes

IBM support should provide concurrent ifixed per default where possible, based on the installed customer (combined) ifixes. Currently customer have to ask several times!More than one „hot patch“ against the kernel without reboot would be very welc...
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

fsck enhancement

In some cases after disk I/O error there is an entry logged in system error log with recommndation to run fcsk on one or more filesystems:B6DB68E0 0424065319 I O SYSJ2 FILE SYSTEM RECOVERY REQUIREDIt is not possible to run full fsck on a mounted f...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

tcpdump "-i any" option unavailable in AIX tcpdump

In tcpdump man page (https://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump_man.html), we have option to provide "any" as interface (with -i flag), which allows us to listen to all available interface. While in AIX tcpdump(https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/...
over 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Save and Restore WPAR

After restwpar, cannot exportvg as it didn't contain VG ODM along with, only /dev/... file which needs to be deleted manually. Customer don't want to do this way as there are 100+ of wpars and some datavg has a lot of LVs inside. If wrongly deleti...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 0 Not under consideration

SUMA schouldn't download superseded packages

We use SUMA to download the latest fixes for a specific AIX-TL once a week. Every week the same set of files gets downloaded and is being removed immediately during lppmgr cleanup afterwards because a newer one is already present (and skipped duri...
over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Request for Implementation of Custom Core Dump Generation in Future AIX Versions as is documented

Dear AIX Development Team, We are writing to bring your attention for an issue we have found out regarding the customization of core dump files generation as documented in this IBM URL https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-core-dump-facility. The ...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Request for ability to have multiple rootvg clones.

The ability to have multiple rootvg clones would be very helpful, we clone rootvg weekly as a means to fall back if regular patching of AIX happens to break something, for example O/S Java used by an application. However it is now the practice her...
about 5 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration

ipfilter (resulting from Case TS001442267)

"There is a limitation, ipsec filters ( mkfilt) and ipfilter can not be used at the same time since they will replace the ip hooks which was being used by either of them. This will result in ipfilter/ipsec(mkfilt ) non functioning." This is a requ...
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Yum on AIX - Avoid yumrepo listing via http and use another Method

Hi Team, We are using yum on AIX and using https to list the RPM's and the directories same as its listed at IBM site https://developer.ibm.com/articles/configure-yum-on-aix/. For Example: We are using baseurl and https as suggested by IBM (exampl...
over 2 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration