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AIX

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No warning message when you are trying to added a already exist routing.

I had encounter a problem when I used AIX command "lsattr -El inet0". I could saw there has two record exist in ODM and these record are direction to the same destination but difference format. I have no message to warning when I am add or delete ...
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Provide version Protocol 6 for sftp in OpenSSH

Customer Fluor requires protocol version 6 of fftp for AIX 7.1
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

aixpert

System: aixpertActor : Need new feature to allow granularity of user for hardening parameters. Description : This feature will help in compliance check.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Support of dlpar operations on processor while emstat is running

As discussed in the defect SW402509 (CMVC ID - 1034622), Currently, emstat doesnt support dlpar operations on processor. Please provide support of dlapr operations on processor while emstat process is running.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement request in yacc compiler for ipfilter to support more than 68 ippools

Using IP Filter: v4.1.13 (480) on AIX 6.1, 7.1 and 7.2, I observed that creating an ippool with more than 68 ip addresses in it doesn't work as expected. It doesn't give any error while creating an ippool, but when we try to list the pools using i...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration

NIM fails to export /export/nim/scripts.

Please refer to PMR 15019,101,616 - NIM fails to export /export/nim/scripts.
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Aix Live update in shared memory

AIX live update in 7.2 is not supported in shared memory and the LPAR has to use dedicated memory , this acts as a bottleneck as all the servers have shared memory .
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

GLVM needs to support 4K disks

The GLVM code that ships with aix does not support 4k disks. Currently, the code only supports 512 byte disks.
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Is a defect

Add underflow on the malloced buffer

the only way to get in that situation seeing in dbx malloc allocation, 3.1 allocations while it should be only Yorktown or bucket, is to have an underflow made on the malloced buffer : Like demonstrated in that example : dbx ./test_under Type 'hel...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

rlogin=false - enable scp to function along with ssh, sftp on AIX

scp fails when a user attribute is set to "rlogin=false". The directive for security reason is to disable the remote login for all service accounts, like Oraacle. when set to false the function to scp files between oracle rac servers failed.
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration