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    Request for better messaging during the liveupdate (LKU) process

    Apple needs a way to determine if AIX LKU is taking too long during the blackout phase. A separate idea AIX-I-685 is open for adding a timeout value, and this RFE is open to break out the separate request from Apple for more information during the...
    over 2 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

    NIM multitenancy

    NIM is a single tenant application. In a multi tenant or complex environment a customer must install multiple NIM servers for different tenants or different network zones. It multiplies storage and compute used for the infrastructure. It is also d...
    over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

    alt_rootvg_op update_all ignores RPM updates

    In AIX 7.1, alt_rootvg_op -b update_all is ignoring all RPMs from update source location provided.As identified in linked PMR, this is caused by alt_rootvg_op not passing parameter "-r" to command install_all_updates, which is taking care of actua...
    about 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

    Reset RootVG PVID in Cloud Ready Images

    Currently when Cloud Ready images are deployed, all images regardless of OS level have the same PVID for hdisk0. This can complicate actions like attaching a rootvg to another system to do an alt_disk operation. This is very common in the cloud (P...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Delivered

    LKU suppress broadcast messages from live update

    When running lvupdate we see these messages on logged in tty's: Live AIX update in progress. and: Live AIX update completed. We follow itil rules for changes for aix updates. But that doesn't necessarily mean that all users who are logged in...
    over 3 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

    LVM: Add ability to give up slow mirror

    Add the ability to mark a physical volume or a complete mirror pool as missing, so that lvm could start handling stale pps. As "chpv -v r" is already there, maybe provide a force option to be able to deactivate pvs that hold open lvs that are mirr...
    over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

    NFSv4 usage in NIM

    nimadm exports in phase2 the "/alt_inst" filesystems as nfs3 tothe NIM-server. Today it's not possible to use nfs4 althoughnimadm knows option "-m NFSMountOptions". With nimadm theclient "/alt_inst" filesystems should be exportable as nfs4.
    about 9 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

    Allow AIXPCM to health check closed luns

    NEW FORMAT "PMR": TS001111225 (This RFE webform is expecting the old format and rejects the new one) Requesting: Add the option for AIXPCM to perform path health checks on all attached multi-path storage regardless of status. This will permit the ...
    over 7 years ago in AIX 7 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...
    about 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

    bos.cifs needs SMBv3

    AIX needs to refresh bos.cifs to at least 10 year old protocol versions. SMBv1 is insecure and has been dropped by every other major operating system except AIX. Here is the real reason now. IBM says Cloud, or bust. Cloud CIFS mounts, at least in ...
    about 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

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