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AIX 7.2 Repackaging of Network Applications

AIX 7.2 Repackaging of Network Applicationsin Fine Granularity I want to remove below tcp fileset without removing idsldap and should be able to perform rte install. bos.net.tcp.clientbos.net.tcp.serverbos.net.tcp.bindbos.net.tcp.bootpbos.net.tcp....
about 5 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

Write preference pthread_rwlock_wrlock

Db2 pureScale provides extreme availability, extreme scalability, and workload consolidations for mission critical OLTP applications that demand 7x24x365 availability. Today, Db2 pureScale is supported on AIX and Linux on POWER and Intel Linux. A ...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

improve AIX default security Enhancement with smarter LPA

The default hash function for passwords checking in AIX or VIO is the legacy crypt() function and is accepting only first 8 characters (for hashes). I'm not sure why old crypt() function is still used by default, but from security perspective sha1...
over 3 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Please provide support for syncing updated lpp_source to NIM alternate master

Starting with an in-sync lpp_source where both the NIM master and NIM alternate master have the same filesets and fileset versions. Update the lpp_source on the NIM master by adding or removing a fileset or fileset update. Run "nim -o sync -a forc...
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

p7zip RPM on AIX toolbox for Linux applications

we have some LPARs that need p7zip and we are currently using the RPM coming from Micheal Perzl, since we are switching all RPM to only use the ones coming from AIX toolbox for Linux application, it would be helpful to have it. Also I guess is a c...
over 4 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

AIX - Integrate Python programming language on AIX base operating system

Integrate Python programming language on AIX base operating system.
almost 5 years ago in AIX 5 Delivered

Live Update support for Oracle ASM using raw Logical Volumes

Oracle ASM raw disks are supported in Live Update, but Oracle ASM using raw Logical Volume are not. This will result in following errors durinng LKU:1020-154 Resource /dev/rlvasm02 is not checkpointable (pid: 6685096) (name: oracle). Query returne...
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Splitting Up Dumps into Confidential and Non-Confidential Data

Swiss banking laws do not allow access to bank customer data from abroad. For this reason it is not possible to send dumps outside of Switzerland for analysis by Labs in other countries. We would like a solution whereby dumps can be split up, ensu...
over 6 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

support for the POSIX/pax tar format in tar

The AIX tar command is a little behind other implementations. It does not support any of the common archive formats which are nowadays being used on any other platform (Linux, MacOS, *BSD, SunOS, HPUX, etc.). $ /usr/bin/tar --help/usr/bin/tar: Not...
about 3 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Add new POLLEXCL flag for poll() function to solve thundering herd problem. Flag logic like EPOLLEXCLUSIVE for linux epoll()

We have developed multiprocessing middleware named Enduro/X, where several processes may listen for messages on several ipc queues (SystemV for example). Processes are using poll() to wait for event in some queue. Work on queues may be load balanc...
over 3 years ago in AIX 8 Delivered

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