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bash-completion RPM for AIX

Hello, it would be nice and useful to have bash-completion RPM ported to AIX. Bash is already available on AIX toolbox for linux application because a lot of users use it, but right now it's not possible to have custom completion of commands, TAB ...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX rw_timeout =40 didn't work over 491 seconds becaus of current AIX FC behavior

System: IBM AIXActor: Customer needs rw_timeout hit as defined in ODM. Description: There are many redundancy solutions for robust disk I/O availability - redundant HBAs, redundant SAN switches and even redundant servers. But rw_timeout=40 didn't ...
over 6 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

The current AIX rw_timeout minium limit 30 seconds is to high/long for modern IT environment.

System: IBM AIXActor: Customer needs rw_timeout minium limit less then 30 seconds. And needs to know hit time along with the rw_timeout. Description: There are many redundancy solutions for robust disk I/O availability - redundant HBAs, redundant ...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

SAN Tape Support in AIX LKU Live Kernel update

We using Spectrum protect LAN Free Backup with SAN NPIV Tapes for backup big Oracle SAP Databases fast. Currently there is no Live Kernel update possible because of the missing support of LKU with NPIV Tapes.
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

MPIO should provide a mechanism to degrade path that return errors

Currently, AIX MPIO PCM provides a mechanism to mark paths as degraded and even fail them when reaching rw_timeout.In some cases (fabric physical degradation) those paths may have been showing errors well in advance or the storage may have aborted...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

live update AIX7.2 LKU

To enhance LKU tool monitoring I suggest to add a timestamp on the standard output at each main step beginning ( ex : 16:41 The live update preview ; 16:46 Creating rootvg for boot of surrogate. 16:55 Starting the surrogate LPAR? Moving workload t...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

Querying LDAP server for users public ssh key via secldapclntd

We would like to have the possibility to use secldapclntd to read during login-time the users ssh public key from an LDAP server (for more details refer to the specified case)
almost 5 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

AIX 7.2 Kerberos Support for Live Update functionality

We Need suport of Kerberos in AIX 7.2 Live Update funtionality Asap !
about 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Implement support for SMBv3 in bos.cifs_fs.rte

Since Windows16 doesn't support SMBv1, there is no chance to mount Windows16-Shares via CIFS on an AIX-Lpar, because the latest bos.cifs_fs version only works with SMBv1.SMBv2 and SMBv3 are not supported.We would appriciate, if bos.cifs_fs.rte wou...
about 7 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Reset RootVG PVID in Cloud Ready Images

Currently when Cloud Ready images are deployed, all images regardless of OS level have the same PVID for hdisk0. This can complicate actions like attaching a rootvg to another system to do an alt_disk operation. This is very common in the cloud (P...
10 months ago in AIX 1 Delivered