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Improved method to securely verify AIX filesets and install images

Currently, the only way to securely verify AIX filesets is during an install operation with the chsignpolicy command set, but even this requires installing the bos.rte.install and bos.dsc filesets in order to obtain the fileset signatures. AIX sho...
almost 2 years ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

Enable IBM Security Identity Manager to manage AIX RBAC roles

Currently it's possible to add AIX RBAC roles to a user in IBM Security Identity Manager. However, it is not possible to define a default role for the same user. This missing function should be added.
over 2 years ago in AIX 2 Future consideration

Disable update of AIX 7.2 with AIX 7.3 packages

If someone by mistake chooses AIX 7.3 LPP source or image to update packages on AIX 7.2, AIX (installp) starts installing the packages from AIX 7.3 on AIX 7.2. The result is non-functioning system which has half AIX 7.2 and half AIX 7.3 packages. ...
6 months ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

Snap with anonymized data

For security reasons, it is becoming more and more complicated for the customer to provide SNAP to support teams when needed.Mainly because these files contain IP addresses, hostnames and binary files.In fact, in companies, customers have modified...
about 4 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Emulex Dirver Support for the Emulex SAN Manager

Support for Congestion Management, Visibility of Transceiver Data and Inventory of all Power Emulex HBAs. Customers can do autonomous Congestions Managment who can help them mitigate Performance Problems. With the Visibility of Transceiver Data th...
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Under review

AIX: OpenSSH support for authenticating with FIDO2 credentials.

Having OpenSSH at least in version 8.2 and getting support for ed25519-sk type of keys would be a gain.
over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Planned for future release

nfsrgyd logging enhancement

Enhanced logging added to the nfsrgyd could make it easier for an end user to determine why it is failing. For instance, if nfsrgyd needs to query a group that has very large membership, it may fail due to a buffer being too small, and the group i...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

Support for disable a device across reboots, FC-adapter.

VIO server (and std AIX servers), when boot is on local nvme and additional disk (lets say appsvg) in in SAN storage. The extra disk in "appsvg" is used for verification/troubleshooting plus as extra space for various reasons. When one do an alt_d...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

AIX I/O error recovery ; Enhance EEH to RoCE adapter

System: Product Power Systems , FPGAActor: enhance EEH to RoCE adapter Product FPGA on Power Systems is a commonly used expansion Unit that provides monitoring and error management of PICe adapter. Description: Customer uses SIView on Power System...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 4 Not under consideration

Add Linux systemd support to AIX

The Linux distributions moved away from using inittab. All new linux distributions and applications are using systemd now.
over 2 years ago in AIX 4 Future consideration

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