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proxy support for emgr_check_ifixes and emgr_download_ifix

Corporate AIX customers often use a proxy in their company to control internet access. However, there is no proxy support in emgr_check_ifixes and emgr_download_ifix.These commands only work with direct internet access. To make these new commands ...
about 1 year ago in AIX 2 Planned for future release

Correct the way AIX NFS4 client constructs its clientID, so that it is persistent across LPMs, as it is required to be.

Current behavior/design Currently, the clientID generated by AIX NFS4 client can possibly change after an LPM. This is because of the current design. In the current design, NFS4 client uses the nodeID as a part of the clientID, and the nodeID can ...
5 months ago in AIX 1 Planned for future release

Addition of Input Modules and Message Modification Modules to AIX rsyslog

We request the compilation of AIX rsyslog with the mmnormalize, impstats, immark, mmcount and mmjsonparse modules. This is necessary for our production and homologation servers. https://www.rsyslog.com/normalizer-first-steps-for-mmnormalize/ Input...
4 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

alias be registerd in the niminfo file

To use IBM DB2, we need to configure the /etc/hosts file as follows:x.x.x.x nimmaster.ss.local nimmasterDue to this configuration, when registering the NIM client, it gets registered as nimmaster.ss.local instead of nimmaster, which results in the...
8 months ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

Upgrade OpenSSH on AIX to 9.6 or above.

I am getting dinged about CVE-2023-51385 from Qualys. AIX has this notice: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7125640 Now, IBM may or may not have done a dandy job of stopping the vulnerability. However if they just patch an existing version o...
about 1 year ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

GLVM for 3 locations (sides)

Currently GLVM only support 2 sides.However, the LVM is able to manage 3 copies.Specially for IBM Cloud environments it is required to get GLVM to support 3 sides. So that the full capability of the AIX LVM can be utilized.
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

LKU uptime

Hello, it will be nice to see date and time of last successfull LKU, command like uptime for LKU output will be exact time and date when was LKU performed successfully. thank youRegards,Dany
28 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Change of WLM start/restart behave in passive mode

When restart or start Workload Manager WLM the AIX is set internal locks to be shure that no new porcess,fork etc can happen until AIX has checked all running processes again WLM rules. On a multi terrabyte memory machine this can lead to 5-7 minu...
about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

lvmstat that can gather MWC stats

We need a custom lvmstat that can gather MWC stats, that would would work like this: To enable mwcc stats: lvmstat -v <vgname> -me To disable mwcc stats: lvmstat -v <vgname> -md To clear mwcc stats: lvmstat -v <vgname> -mC To que...
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

Need ability to sync from AIX File system cache in memory to disk when needed

When having filesystems with multiple TB of size and have a big read/update activity depending on the size of VM and his %Maxperm when shut down AIX and it comes to the umount point it might take hours before everyting is synched to disk. It shoul...
about 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

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