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AIX

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    When the GB18030-2022 standard for AIX will be released

    GB18030-2022 is a national mandatory standard that has been officially implemented since August 1 this year. As a formal state-owned enterprise, the client is also required by the superiors to enforce this standard.
    over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Improve errpt CORE_DUMP entries to refer back to executable image that was running

    When using dbx to analyze a core file that was dumped, the executable binary that was running must be used in combination with the core file to identify the exact instruction that caused the core dump. In the errpt CORE_DUMP entry there is the ful...
    over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    User generated list of IP that the HMC will NOT use for RCM connections.

    When an RCM connection is established to the PowerHA cluster service IP that moves from node to node, you can end up in a situation where you cannot dynamically increase CPU, and memory on a system. I would like to exclude PowerHA Service IPs from...
    over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

    Improve the lrud behavior when free the large amount of memory.

    When lrud free the memory, it will enable the interrupt disabled mode and block other threads. When customer runs the time-sensitive applications, it might lead to an application time out and then the transaction failures.
    over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Support sudo ldap on AIX

    sudo-ldap is supported. I see various clients using it. It is in AIX Tools website: http://www.aixtools.net/index.php/sudo-ldap Looks like IBM AIX officially does not support sudo-ldap. The naming service is coming from LDAP and authentication fro...
    about 6 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

    Enhancements for AIX Live Update

    Would it be technically possible to somehow "push" the AIX Live Update from the PowerVC side to the AIX client, instead of doing the the pvcauth for needed token from AIX client > PowerVC prior to the actual update? I opened a discussion on thi...
    about 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    AIX Live Kernel Update - make mhdisk (mirrored rootvg) optional rather than mandatory

    One of the impediments to using AIX Live Update is the number of disks required to achieve it, particularly when performing subsequent updates between reboots. This adds up when you are talking about hundreds of LPARs being managed. Currently, the...
    about 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    LKU log should have a distinct message for failures

    The logs for LKU should have a distinct message to help identify if LKU failed. Using the text "error" has multiple places that does not indicate an error. For example:"Informational data related to AIX Live Update. This is not an error.\" getErro...
    over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under 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 4 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 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

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