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Have AIX fibre channel allow storage target ports to leave Fabric and return with new FC_ID (same WWN) for Disaster Recovery

In NetApp's SAN storage Cluster Mode Disaster Recovery solution, two distinct clusters are active at separate sites. When one cluster or site goes down, the cluster at the other site can load it's replicated configuration and data and continue to ...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration

NFS v4.1 support for AIX 6.1/7.1

NFS v4.1 - Support requriement for AIX 6.1/7.1
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

change standard name of mail sender : username.hostname@domainname

we would like to have standard mail sender like :username.hostname@domainnameinstead of :username@hostname.domainname
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

FOM Design Change Request

In the event of FOM related failures, current standard recovery procedures are causing longer service outages, which have a greater impact on business. For banking customers, all FC adapters are redundant by FOM, so in case of failure immediate ta...
over 4 years ago in AIX 2 Future consideration

SLOW THROUGHPUT ON PPP CONNECTIONS

A Point-to-Point connection will experience slow throughput, when loop_back performance feature is turned ON.
about 9 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

Automatic conversion of ifx_loc_t (TEXT/BYTE) to/from ifx_lo_t (CLOB/BLOB)

Hello, Sorry for the IBM AIX product name but this is about IBM/HCL Informix and I can't find the product name in the list... We have legacy Informix ESQL/C code using ifx_loc_t to handle TEXT/BYTE columns. Customers want now to replace TEXT/BYTE ...
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Orale OS Audit Script define multiple destination directories

We are in process of integrating oracleOsAudit log in Qradar, refer to this documentation (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS42VS_DSM/com.ibm.dsm.doc/t_DSM_guide_Oracle_OSAudit_cfg.html), we have downloaded and configured perl script o...
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Perfromance Improvement for the AIX 7.1 commands grep, wc and sort in UTF-8 locale

Customer reported slower performance with UTF-8 locale, for scriptsparsing UTF-8 text with wc, sort, grep.
over 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Sorting in NIM

In NIM all (?) listings/outputs of clients, resources and so on (also and especially in smitty) are not sorted, which makes it difficult when having many entries.
over 9 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Is there any way that SAS RAID adapter (FC: EJ0U) used in S824 server can support SCIS standard disk pages 0x80?

System : Steel Mill Cold Rolling SystemActor : Our Team want to Fix the this ErrorDescription: The current system provides service using Veritas InfoScale, and the server configures the internal disks to RAID to duplicate them using the InfoScale ...
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration