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Autoconfig attribute for the nvmeX devices

For unused fcnvme devices and unused fscsi devices, we provide an "autoconfig" options which allows us to put such devices in a semi-permanent Defined state. The customer would like an autoconfig attribute on the nvmeX devices as well, such that h...
2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Provide 64-bit build of BIND/named on AIX to remove MAXDATA constraints

Because of increasing memory demand we have named crashes that lead to production outages. named is shipped as a 32-bit binary at the moment which limits the amount of memory it can allocate. Please ship named as a 64-bit binary which will not rel...
2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

TS2290 and 7226-1U3 (LTO-9) SAS HH Tape drive support AIX & VIOS

LTO-9 SAS HH connected 7226 tape drives are not supported in AIX / VIOS partitions and may log VRSAS_FABRIC_ERROR, SRN2D11-4101 Please resolve this issue as soon as possible.SSIC is supported, but power is not.We would like to provide a SAS card t...
7 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Upgrade OpenSSH on AIX to 9.6 or above.

I am getting dinged about CVE-2023-51385 from Qualys. AIX has this notice: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7125640 Now, IBM may or may not have done a dandy job of stopping the vulnerability. However if they just patch an existing version o...
over 1 year ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

Need ability to sync from AIX File system cache in memory to disk when needed

When having filesystems with multiple TB of size and have a big read/update activity depending on the size of VM and his %Maxperm when shut down AIX and it comes to the umount point it might take hours before everyting is synched to disk. It shoul...
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Add NFS v4.1 and NFS v4.2 support for mounting on clients

There are supposedly security and stability enhancements in NFSv4.1 and v4.2. Also, the IBM product MQ suggests using NFSv4.1
almost 2 years ago in AIX 5 Future consideration

Deliver emfc_power as command in AIX for SAN connection troubleshooting

One of the first steps when working with IBM is (after snap´s) is to run the command emfc_power to verify TX/RX/ levels. This command could be useful as a standard command also including 25/10Gbs LAN power status check, as maybe event driven alert...
over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Under review

Correct the way AIX NFS4 client constructs its clientID, so that it is persistent across LPMs, as it is required to be.

Current behavior/design Currently, the clientID generated by AIX NFS4 client can possibly change after an LPM. This is because of the current design. In the current design, NFS4 client uses the nodeID as a part of the clientID, and the nodeID can ...
about 1 year ago in AIX 2 Planned for future release

NFS3 performance improvement of attribute caching

When a NFS client caches file and directory attributes, it uses READDIRPLUS to initially populate the cache, but does not when refreshing expired entries. Performance is improved briefly for the timeout duration (based on acdirmax, acdirmin, acreg...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

alias be registerd in the niminfo file

To use IBM DB2, we need to configure the /etc/hosts file as follows:x.x.x.x nimmaster.ss.local nimmasterDue to this configuration, when registering the NIM client, it gets registered as nimmaster.ss.local instead of nimmaster, which results in the...
about 1 year ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

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