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AIX

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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 4 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 3 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Request for better messaging during the liveupdate (LKU) process

Apple needs a way to determine if AIX LKU is taking too long during the blackout phase. A separate idea AIX-I-685 is open for adding a timeout value, and this RFE is open to break out the separate request from Apple for more information during the...
over 1 year ago in AIX 2 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...
about 4 years ago in AIX 5 Delivered

NIM multitenancy

NIM is a single tenant application. In a multi tenant or complex environment a customer must install multiple NIM servers for different tenants or different network zones. It multiplies storage and compute used for the infrastructure. It is also d...
almost 2 years ago in AIX 1 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,...
about 4 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Add Python to AIX packaging

Include or Add Python installation to the AIX packaging software ready available for download or bundle to the dvd_rom media.
over 5 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

High getattr() calls against /etc/passwd while accessing files owned by LDAP-defined users

We have observed that list command ( ls –l ) against file(s) owned by LDAP user is causing 10x more getattr calls to /etc/passwd file comparing to same list ( ls –l ) against file(s) owned by LOCAL (/etc/passwd) defined user. LDAP user – is a user...
about 6 years ago in AIX 2 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 5 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

LKU suppress broadcast messages from live update

When running lvupdate we see these messages on logged in tty's: Live AIX update in progress. and: Live AIX update completed. We follow itil rules for changes for aix updates. But that doesn't necessarily mean that all users who are logged in...
over 2 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered