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AIX

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Need to securely erase disks

Need a way to securely erase non-internal disks.
over 8 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration

IPSEC Solution Function Enhancement Request

I'm CTS for KFCC and submit this request on behalf of KFCC. KFCC requested to add a funcing for ports range selection in IPSEC solution.Other OS such as Linux, Windows, Solaris support ports range selection but IBM AIX only support individual port...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

add TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT

TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT allows applications blocked in poll() or accept() to not be woken until a byte of data has arrived. This helps servers conserve resources without using more. It is similar to "accept filters" or the combination of accept+recv some...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

ls -l fails if file is deleted during the execution of the command

Customer would like an enviorment variable to neglect a file from output if the file is removed during the execution of ls -l
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

mpstat -T flag

Hi IBM, Could you add the -T flag to mpstat command so that each output block is timestamped like the vmstat and iostat -t flags?
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Pcmpath Query Device Abend AIX - Improvement

When i use an unsupported configuration , over 16 per PATHs Device , the command " pcmpath device query" should receive CORE instead, but AIX receive an ABEND (DSI ), and crash/reboot the system.
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Is a defect

Allow PP size of rootvg to be set during installation

Allow administrators to set the physical partition (pp) size of rootvg at AIX installation time.
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

NIM bos_inst support for multibos images

Currently, according to the multibos man page, "You can create a backup that contains both instances by first mounting the standby instance (using the -m flag), and then creating the backup. However, you can restore the backup onto a disk only by ...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Allow for AIX automountd failover in the event of primary LDAP server loss

Our team utilizes AIX as the main operating system for our application servers. Within these servers we utilize the LDAP feature to authenticate for purposes such as sudo, ssh, automount, etc. While LDAP does support server failover, automountd as...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

ipfilter do not drop pakets anymore

Hello, We are using ipfilter as a firewall. When the session table is full, packets are dropped. We ask IBM to change the ipfilter behaviour as described below : if ipfilter can not store a session (session table is full)then a) accept the packets...
about 9 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

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