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Customer wants notification of when VGDA corruption occurs prior to a reboot of the system.

Action Taken: - customer says he had vg on A and B, then they migrated to c and d and brought it up fine. - they a had shared luns and on one set of systems those luns had a vg that was varied on and used. On the second set of system that had the ...
about 7 years ago in AIX 2 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...
almost 3 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration

paging space usage optimization

The AIX OS is keeping the Oracle DB process always in paging space after once the process uses the paging space once it's life time - Further details are referenced in the Case Hello John, Thank you for your email. As explained, AIX is designed to...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration

mpstat - integer overflow in ILCS/VLCS

"mpstat -ht 1 | grep ALL" watching ILCS/VLCS (as taught by Earl Jew ;-). It looks like the code doesn't protect against integer overflow in at least the ILCS column.
almost 3 years ago in AIX 2 Is a defect

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

SMBC authentication options

Currently SMBC on AIX relies on Kerberos to authenticate; this request is to add NTLMv2, in a similar fashion to how SMB and/or CIFS shares work on Linux.
over 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

c_mkbosi.sh is calling nim_unmount without the force flag.

c_mkbosi.sh is calling nim_unmount without the force flag.This should be fixed, so that the NIM resource's filesystem/directory is unmounted when the mksysb is done. If another command being run on the system puts the NIM resource's filesystem/dir...
about 3 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Power9 AIX 7.1 TL3 support

AIX 7.1 TL3 Power9 support to use new hardware for our existing vms
about 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Allow the specification of minage to be less than a week

Currently value set for minage is in weeks and the smallest value to enter is 1, equating to 1 week. This value is to high and we would like the ability to specify minage in hours or days.
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Capability to leverage AIX MPIO & EMC PowerPath

Would like to manage RootVG LUNs by AIX MPIO and DataVGs / LUNs to be managed by DELL - EMC Multipath - PowerPath.
about 6 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

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