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AIX

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Have an option( flag or environment variable) for active dead gateway detection ( -active_dgd ) to not write to the system log

If a pair of routes is created with the -active_dgd flag and the gateway ( remote host ) is rebooted, the local host will receive a system log message indicating that the gateway is broken or no longer pingable. Please add an option so that the lo...
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

LSVG -P does not issue any warning or errors when multiple PVs have duplicate PVIDs. It may list PVs that are not part of the volume group.

Every day, we clone all of the PVs in select volume groups, then run cfgmgr to make them accessible. Our normal first step is to clear and reset the PVID of each of the new PVs. Then use those PVs to recreate a new cloned version of the original v...
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

add support for AIX and IBM i in yarnpkg

Yarn is a package manager for Javascript projects (https://yarnpkg.com/). It is used in many open and closed source projects for dependency management. As for now yarn doesn't support big endian architectures, such as AIX and IBM i. It means, that...
over 2 years ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

Enhance RSCT code base to allow for daemon communication via SNAT/NAT

HMC's dependence on RSCT for operations such as DLPAR and LPM and RSCT's incompatibility with Network address translation (NAT). This incompatibility forces my company to deploy/acquire multiple redundant "pairs" of HMCs per Network address transl...
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Planned for future release

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 **********...
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 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

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

Support for multiple clients in NIM customization command

It's highly desirable for system administrators to have a way to use NIM functionality to manage multiple systems, often on an ad-hoc basis. In particular, NIM scripts can be very useful for automating tasks across multiple AIX clients, but curren...
over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Functionality already exists

efsenable should use a defined umask

When root is using the AIX default umask of 022 the command efsenable annd all other dependend commands work fine. If an other umask got used when using efsenable. For instance 077. The command efsmgr will not work when executed by a user,
over 2 years ago in AIX 2 Is a defect

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