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AIX

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AIX cfgmgr command should be fault tolerant

The AIX cfgmgr command is critical to 24x7 operation. It is expected and critical to design system software or operating system software to be fault tolerant. Therefore the cfgmgr command should not hang when comes across a faulty card, port, inte...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Enable AIX Diagnostics to provide meaningful error message when adapter is failing

See PMR above and also 71727,L6Q,000. Error message received indicated only 'link error' for a hardware problem. AIX today does not have the ability to provide a more exact error to indicate a hardware problem.
over 7 years ago in AIX 0 Not under consideration

Allow existing commands to be more interactive

Provide more interactive output for commands that will be doing a lot of work, or have the potential to make large changes in the system.
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

AIX leap second handling

Both Linux and Solaris (for lack of better terms) are using a "stretched 59th second " that last for 2 seconds before it ticked to 00. So when compared to TAI, when the clock ticked to 00, all will be in synced. The requirement is that AIX provide...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

ksh93 search slow

The performance of the following ksh93 script is unacceptable: s="a=123456789-123456789-12345678" date if [[ "${s}" == *([!=])[=]*(*) ]]; then date name=${.sh.match[1]} value=${.sh.match[2]} print "Match" ${name} "=" ${value} else date print "No m...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Enhance REXEC protocol to support LDAP/KRB5LDAP authentication

Problem Description : rexec allows compat authentication for users. We would like to have rexec to use LDAP and KR5LDAP for authentication.
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Allow Installp to install filesets that begin with a number

Installp does not allow installing and uninstalling of a fileset that begins with a number. 3par has an mpio fileset 3PARmpio.64. It was installed on a customer's system and they tried to uninstall with installp -u and it failed.
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

?kdb' on AIX instances to extract data from device driver directly - Request for replacement command

Background: Our support teams often run ‘kdb' commands on AIX operating system instances to extract data regarding certain device driver instances directly from the kernel. Problem statement: Use of kdb on production UNIX systems is frowned upon b...
over 7 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

dbx enhancement for vector types generated by XL C

See the testcase in the PMR. Enhancement needed to keep dbx in step with technical advances in the compiler.Currently gdb 7.9.1 demonstrates the required support for vectors.
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

Per-process core compression setting

The core compression option is used to manage volume for a sizable influx of core dumps generated by application code. There were also important, though obsolescent, reasons for requiring compression that had to do with highly unfavorable dump-rel...
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration