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AIX

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    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...
    over 6 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 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    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 8 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

    Need support in AIX for Open Source FUSE (Filesystem in User Space) support

    We need support in AIX for GO programming language for FUSE, Some ffrom development have asked us about support
    over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    add rule to manage 'at' scheduling like 'crontab' in AIXPERT

    we are using aixpert to setup our secuirty baseline for AIX estate. it works good, but we realized it missing some rule set, for example we have rule set to control crontab scheduling, but we did not find one for 'at' scheduling. the rule set we u...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Functionality already exists

    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...
    about 5 years ago in AIX 0 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 7 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration

    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 3 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 3 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 3 years ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

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