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Support for AgentX in AIX

Several software vendors provide SNMP monitoring facilities for their applications, implemented as sub-agents. In many cases, these utilise the AgentX protocol for communication with a master agent. Currently, this requires a third-party SNMP mast...
about 8 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

mkps and chps can create > 64GB paging spaces

The swap man page says paging devices can be a maximum of 64GB. Yet mkps and chps can create a device of any size. The customer in this referenced pmr changed his paging device from 24GB to 150GB and it did not swap on when he rebooted. He deleted...
about 8 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

AIX: add robust mutex capability to pthreads

IBM Power Systems customer Bloomberg is requesting AIX support the robust mutex capability as described in the below link: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/pthread_mutexattr_getrobust.html
about 8 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Mirrored rootvg in wpar not able to stop/start after disk failure

In an LPAR, rootvg can be mirrored, a disk can fail, and the LPAR can boot from the remaining disk. One can accomplish a boot off the remaining disk by entering maintenance mode, setting the remaining disk as the boot disk, and updating the bootli...
about 8 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Remove an ifix using LiveUpdate

Enable the removal of ifixes via LiveUpdate, fi. by adding a new parameter to the geninstall command
about 8 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Reusing the disks from the lvup_rootvg after a LiveUpdate

After a Live Update operation some additional disks needed are contained in a ghost VG named lvup_rootvg, which blocks the reusage of the disks for other LPARs or for a subsequent LU operation. Please make it possible to delete this VG without a r...
about 8 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Synchronize Contents of rootvg and NIM Alt Disk Migration

An Alt Disk Migration is run at 6:00 am but the reboot to the Alt Disk is not scheduled until 6:00 pm. During that 12 hour window, a user changes their password. So, /etc/pass is no longer up to date on the Alt Migration disk. It would be nice to ...
about 8 years ago in AIX 0 Not under consideration

Implementation of DBX set $frame functionality

Request for a working version of the "set $frame" facility to be able to study a core dump from an alternate point in the stack. In AIX 7.1 TL3 SP3, dbx already has placeholder code for this facility. The use case presented in PMR 83008,L6Q is a p...
about 8 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Phase 2 truss functional enhancements

AIX 7.2 TL 1 contains enhancements to the truss command to expand system calls which can be decoded. This request is to build upon that capability to improve and expand this capability : 1. Expansion of statx, socketpair, pipe.2. Next tranche of c...
over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

alt_disk_mksysb on aix

I was able to reproduce your problem in the lab system.- The problem occurs with EtherChannel configuration. - The problem doesn't occur with non-EtherChannel configuration. .To cut a long story short, it is a design limitation. The alt_disk_mksys...
over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

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