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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...
about 8 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...
about 8 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 8 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 8 years ago in AIX 2 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 8 years ago in AIX 3 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 8 years ago in AIX 4 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 8 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

AIX mkszfile enhancement

At the moment the mkszfile creates a corrupt image.data file if there are any full filesystems. This causes the mksysb command to produce a corrupt mksysb, that can not be restored, without throwing a warning or an error. We need to get a good ima...
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

update_all and ifixes

When we have LPARs with ifixes installed and want to install the latest Service pack using the smit update_all the update fails because the ifixes need to be manually removed before the service pack can be installed. This is a timely process. Can ...
over 8 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

update to mkcd utility

Enhancement to mkcd command. When writing to a virtual optical library, there are issues with mksysb images greater than 4Gb and with the way the data is stored on the cdrom filesystem.
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

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