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Enhance unmirrorvg for mirror pools

Contrary to 'mirrorvg' the 'unmirrorvg' command is not aware of Mirror Pools. Hence before removing a mirror copy of a LV the Mirror Pools need to be removed separately (with 'chlv -M ...'). It might be a good idea to have 'unmirrorvg' enhanced to...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Request for fast HBA I/O failure

During FC cable test with NICE Information Service(client), we found I/O delay time gap between AIX server and x86 machine. When FC adapter driver detects a link event, driver waits approximately for 15 seconds. Client carried out same test on bot...
about 3 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

alt_rootvg_op update_all ignores RPM updates

In AIX 7.1, alt_rootvg_op -b update_all is ignoring all RPMs from update source location provided.As identified in linked PMR, this is caused by alt_rootvg_op not passing parameter "-r" to command install_all_updates, which is taking care of actua...
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Allow AIXPCM to health check closed luns

NEW FORMAT "PMR": TS001111225 (This RFE webform is expecting the old format and rejects the new one) Requesting: Add the option for AIXPCM to perform path health checks on all attached multi-path storage regardless of status. This will permit the ...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 7 Delivered

Support for LDAP netgroups and assigning LDAP users to local UNIX groups

Unable to assign LDAP users membership to local UNIX groups. The bank's LDAP service uses LDAP Netgroups as a core design element to group various entities within the bank and define access controls. We have a complex tree of several 1000s of LDAP...
over 3 years ago in AIX 5 Delivered

Enhance performance of AIX Trusted Execution by improving the logic to verify integrity of untrusted files

Trusted Execution (TE) is an AIX security feature for file integrity verification. For performing the integrity check, TE compares the hash value of the files on the system against the pre-calculated hash values stored in its Trusted signature dat...
over 4 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

AIX watch_config_files script used by installp not call if updates failed

Normaly, nim installp updates for a client will call script watch_config_files script that will validate if files listed in /etc/check_config.files has been change during the updates, and if yes, will list the differences in a file /var/adm/ras/co...
over 6 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

AIX Live Kernel Update - autofs support

AIX Live Update doesn't work on systems with mounts of the type "autofs" although these are just created by the automount daemon and do not affect any critical issue for Live Update.
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

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 ...
over 2 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX LFS changes required for smbc performance enhancement

Development asked for an RFE to be opened to request modification of the LFS layer of AIX to add vinfo parameters to the vnop_readdir and vnop_lockctl calls so that the smbc client can get the information it needs to avoid duplicating SMB queries,...
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

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