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AIX

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Request to fix chauthent command

Running 'chauthent -std' or 'chauthent -k5 -std' willuncomment shell/kshell/login/klogin entries in inetd.conf and refresh inetd automatically. This behavior needs to change, to avoid inadvertantly activating non-secure or otherwise unwantedservic...
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

New user controllable AIX parameters for unix domain socket buffer size

End-user : Hana Bank in KoreaOS : AIX v7.2Middleware : TMAX (TP Monitor) from TMAXSoft in KoreaClient's core banking application performance is getting worse as the size of application data that needs to be passed between those application process...
over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

AIX ftpd to use ciphers that need ECDH key exchange

To use FTP in a secure way, the ftpd daemon may use openssl ciphers (FTPS). But modern TLS 1.3 ciphers provided by openssl 1.1 using ECDH key exchange are not possible to be used with the ftpd. These new ciphers should be supported by the ftpd.
almost 4 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Request change of default permissions

The /var/ct/RMstart.log is the logfile used by RMC and can contain sensitive data that must be secured. RMC provides a single monitoring and management infrastructure for both RSCT peer domains and management domains. Its generalized framework is ...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

support for the POSIX/pax tar format in tar

The AIX tar command is a little behind other implementations. It does not support any of the common archive formats which are nowadays being used on any other platform (Linux, MacOS, *BSD, SunOS, HPUX, etc.). $ /usr/bin/tar --help/usr/bin/tar: Not...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

hdisk name related to alt_disk_copy and bosboot

IBM should NOT permit altdiskcopy to run to disk names that are NOT supported by bosboot. Request fix via any method below:1. Update altdiskcopy to FAIL if disk name used is unsupported by bosboot.2. Update bosboot to support any disk name.3. Publ...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Request for fast HBA I/O failure

During FC cable test with NICE Information Service(client), we found I/O delay time gap between AIX server and x86 machine. When FC adapter driver detects a link event, driver waits approximately for 15 seconds. Client carried out same test on bot...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX LFS changes required for smbc performance enhancement

Development asked for an RFE to be opened to request modification of the LFS layer of AIX to add vinfo parameters to the vnop_readdir and vnop_lockctl calls so that the smbc client can get the information it needs to avoid duplicating SMB queries,...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Support for LDAP netgroups and assigning LDAP users to local UNIX groups

Unable to assign LDAP users membership to local UNIX groups. The bank's LDAP service uses LDAP Netgroups as a core design element to group various entities within the bank and define access controls. We have a complex tree of several 1000s of LDAP...
about 4 years ago in AIX 5 Delivered

filesystem shrinking with multiple threads

The current shrinkfs functionality of AIX does not scale well and only uses one thread for moving data during a shrink. Since during the work of shrinkfs the filesystem is quiesced to avoid conflicts with new I/O, this can cause applications to bl...
about 4 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered