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AIX

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Add details on syslog messages

The current syslog messages around service stop/start/restart do not provide enough information as required by the customer. The requirement is to add the following information to the current syslog message: username (who did the action), time, af...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 3 Is a defect

Please add support for Option 82 to AIX DHCP Server Process

Please add support for DHCP option 82 (i.e. the DHCP Relay Agent information option) to the AIX DHCP Server daemon (/usr/sbin/dhcpsd) so that it correctly handles requests from clients that are received via a DHCP relay agent (such as a Juniper ro...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

Updated Firefox package

Updated version of FIREFOX needed (and all pre-requisite software) for some of our applications that run on AIX
almost 7 years ago in AIX 0 Not under consideration

Frame work design for vmgetinfo called from WPAR

I reviewed all the available data and examined the AIX code of the vmgetinfo() system call, called from a WPAR. It is true that vmgetinfo() call, called from global returns quicker than vmgetinfo() call, called within a WPAR. As per the current de...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Stanza names for pwmod.sha512

The stanzas that pwmod.sha512 add to /etc/security/pwdalg.cfg are not descriptive of password algorithm that is being used as they are just 5 and 6.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

AIX tcp_keepidle default for keep alive packets

Hi IBM, The default setting for tcp_keepidle is 14400. This equals 2 hours between keep alive packets for idle connections. Most firewalls default to 1 hour before they terminate idle connections. Would you consider reducing the tcp_keepidle to 18...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

The snap command should gather mirror pool info

The snap command needs to be updated to gather mirror pool information. Right now the mirror pool commands are not in it, nor are the flags that list information for other commands. At a minimum it should run:lspv -Plsmp -A vgname (for all vgs tha...
about 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Execution bit /usr/sbin/nsupdate9 AIX 7.2

After migrating our OS from AIX 7.1 to AIX 7.2 the execution bit of /usr/sbin/nsupdate9 was changed back to 554 as it was before (see below). It caused that some deployments of our developers failed. We now changed it back to 555 manually.In nsupd...
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Is a defect

AIX GL glue linkage assembler for custom dynamic linkage code.

This enhancement is specific to AIX and is a problem with the linker/binder software ('ld') and relates to the use of the GL storage mapping class within assembler files. Micro Focus Visual COBOL uses some dynamically created assembler files in or...
about 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

topasrec

Would like to see topasrec have a flag to output information similar to the top page in nmon. To include the date, time, PID, command, and user at a minimum. As the topasrec process is started by default in the inittab it would be a good idea to p...
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration