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Provide standardise approach for lsmpio metadata expansion

Currently there is no public information about what extended metadata attributes can be obtained from the storage to facilitate OS admin manipulation of storage.For example lsmpio -q presents on some devices the name of the volume and there could ...
about 3 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

AIX kernel change to batch memory pool rebalance for DLPAR vCPU adds/removes

Today for every 8 logical CPUs, the memory pools are being rebalanced. There is serialization if the lpar is a shared processor lpar, such that rebalancing can cause a CPU add/delete operation to wait until the rebalancing is completed. This can b...
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Non-root volume groups not automatically imported and varied on after Versioned WPAR restore

After a successfull restore of Versioned AIX 5.3 WPAR, I have noticed that any non-rootvg volume groups i.e. data volume groups are not automatically imported and varied on. In our testing, we are restoring the vWPAR back onto the same Global LPAR...
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Support iSCSI targets other than just AIX

The AIX iSCSI sw initiatior problems are only supported when the iSCSI target is also AIX. This makes iSCSI a non-option in the AIX world. IBM needs to support the iSCSI sw initiator as a standards-based adapter for it to be relevant.
about 3 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Mechanism to allow drivers in IO path to communicate with each other.

We need a mechanism to allow drivers in IO path to communicate with each other.A possible approach could be to allow third party vendors to set/use any unused bit in b_flags in buf/bufx structure to achieve the same. Basically, In the IO path AIX ...
over 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

AIX DVD BOS Installation and support to NetApp MPIO

Trying to migrate my NIM server from AIX 7.1 to 7.2. When I boot from the AIX 7.2 DVD Iso image, using the Virtual Library from the Vios, it goes well up until I start the migration itself... At the very first step the migration fails with the fol...
over 6 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

secldapclntd 64bit

The AIX LDAP client secldapclntd is 32bit software, To run secldapclntd we need also install the 32bit part of the LDAP client idsldap.clt32bit64.rte and idsldap.clt_max_crypto32bit64.rte And if we use SSL then we install the dependency to the 32B...
over 6 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

AIX instfix ran from batch leaves empty dirs in /tmp

I use below command instfix -i | egrep "ML|SP"| grep "Not all filesets for" | awk '{system ("instfix -ciqk "$5)}' | grep ":-:" to find if all filesets in AIX are correct. After some time, in /tmp dir there is a lot of empty dirs with name instfixX...
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Is a defect

Need multiple IPSec tunnels in AIX to the same endpoint.

AIX has a limitation in IPsec configurability. It does not support multiple IPsec tunnels, each using a unique IKE authentication pre-shared key, to the same remote endpoint address. This RFE is to AIX to provide this capabilities.
over 6 years ago in AIX 4 Future consideration

On AIX, authenticate user access to servers by the LDAP group to which they belong.

System : AIXProduct : LDAPDescription:The client must be able to allow an access to server with an authenticate LDAP users according to the group to which they belong (bdd, ssoo, was,etc..), the directive of HostAllow and HostDeny of servers is no...
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

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