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AIX

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RFE for PowerVM for QoS with virtual fibre channel (NPIV)

QoS with NPIV requirements: Desire a way to control the relative host and related FC adapter resources that a VM can consume compared to other VMs on a physical server. The intent is to allow VMs with critical I/O needs to get more host and FC ada...
10 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

AIX/PowerSC Trusted Execution (TE) vulnerability

A script can still be run on an AIX system where trusted execution (TE) has been enabled, even if TE is enabled with CHKSCRIPT=YES etc.Even if script "my_script" is not in the TSD, it can be executed by ksh ./my_scriptor similar variation / shell....
over 3 years ago in AIX 5 Future consideration

Add target limitations to PV_SU in AIX RBAC

If one of the PV_SU kernel privileges is used any target user id can be reached by a privileged command. There is currentliy no limitation to the list of target user id's for the su command. It would be great to get a way to limit the target user-...
over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Improve smbc performance with multiple threads

When multiple threads access an smbc share, individual threads may pause for long periods of time while one thread seems to have almost exclusive access to the share.
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

chmod: ACL support

Not very well known feature of Linux is the possibility to set ACLs with chmod command - http://www.mtitek.com/tutorials/linux/fileperm_chmod_acl.php even if there are special ACL commands like setfacl and getfacl. The feature is used in some Ansi...
4 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

chmod: add reference option

Sometimes it is useful to set permissions the same way as they already set on one of the files. In Linux it is possible to do the operation with --reference option to provide a reference file with permissions already set. Linux example: # ls -ltot...
4 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

(AIX NIM Server on Linux(ppc64le)

Setting up an "AIX NIM Server" on a Linux(ppc64le) is a powerful way to efficiently manage AIX and VIOS installations. The Network Installation Manager (NIM) is a tool from IBM that automates the installation, management and maintenance of AIX and...
6 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

Enhance the AIX RBAC roles isso, so, and sa

The AIX RBAC roles isso, so, and sa have in Standard AIX a lot less rights than in Trusted AIX. It should be equal. At least for the components which are available on both AIX types.
about 2 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

RSCT - Change to Communication Group formation over entirely uncommon subnets

When creating a RSCT "Peer Domain" cluster in a DR setup (2 Data Centers, multiple km apart), and with multiple Networks. It can happen that unwanted, or not working RSCT Communication Groups get created. It would be useful to have a capability to...
over 2 years ago in AIX 3 Planned for future release

RMC connection through NAT firewall

In an MSP environment there are multiple customers on one system with multiple VLANs. The VLANs are all behind a NAT firewall. From a management point of view, an LPAR should talk to the HMC over RMC through that NAT firewall. The issue in that en...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

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