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    file system corruptions causin whole lpar reboot

    System: OS AIX Actor: Kapi bank File system corruption caused whole lpar to crash.We believe that it would be way safer if corrupted filesystem could turn read only instead of uncontrolled OS crash .
    over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    64-bit support in AIX maintenance mode

    If AIX is started in the maintenance mode to repair the system, 64-bit programs can't start by default: "Cannot run a 64-bit program until the 64-bit environment has been configured." The usual way is to start /etc/methods/cfg64 if filesystems are...
    over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    secldapclntd should respect LDAP_OPT_SECURITY_PROTOCOL and related settings

    The IBM Directory Server idsldap libraries support the following environment variables: LDAP_OPT_SSL_CIPHER LDAP_OPT_SSL_CIPHER_EX LDAP_OPT_SECURITY_PROTOCOL However, secldapclntd does not. It would be helpful for secldapclntd to respect these o...
    over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    Configure FTPS using port 990 and FTP with port 20

    It is useful from security preceptive to use FTP secure. As our customer wants to configure this FTPS with port 990 to transfer that data from AS400 to AIX.
    over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    telefork() call for AIX

    telefork() call allows to move a single running process to another server. Details about Linux realization - https://thume.ca/2020/04/18/telefork-forking-a-process-onto-a-different-computer/
    over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    useradm/secadm RBAC role has ability to change the root user UID

    Hi, I recently found that using the ‘useradm & secadm' RBAC roles in AIX will allow someone to modify the root account and change the UID of root user, effectively destroying the root account and stopping root daemons on the server from functi...
    about 7 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

    Test the presence of /var/spool/qdaemon and /var/spool/lpd/qdir directory before the qdaemon service starts

    We want to have the qdaemon scripts/program testing the availability of /var/spool/qdaemon and /var/spool/lpd/qdir before the qdaemon service starts.If the directories are not present then daemon should not start.Can it be done by IBM labs as an i...
    about 7 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration

    Automate Oracle migration from 12c to 19c using Ansible inside VM

    We have 1000+ Oracle 12c which normally demand for totally new environments (install 19c and do DB work) for migration work 12c to 19c. Allocating new environments (VMs) is time consuming and resource consuming (cost in labour and hw/sw) so I woul...
    over 3 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

    AIX mksysb not work on rootvg disk with multiple paths

    1. Before backing up system we are required to run pprootdev fix . If you do not execute this command, backup process will fail right away.2. After running pprootdev fix, we back up host using mksysb;3. Because the AIX OS is not currently designed...
    about 7 years ago in AIX 3 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 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

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