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Change the entstat 'Adapter Data Rate' to reflect the actual / current negotiated link speed vs the maximum speed.

Example: PCIe3 2 PORT 25/10/1 Gb NIC&ROCE SFP28 ADAPTER The entstat 'adapter data rate' attribute is hardcoded to report the maximum data rate for the adapter regardless of the actual link speed. This is can be misleading and not helpful when ...
4 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Introduce "generic" full & easily machine parsable output for AIX commands

Command part of "list" category (lsvg, lslv, lssyscfg, lsdev, lsattr, ....) provide the entry point to capture configuration of AIX OS.Allowing all theses kind of commands to provide "full & easily machine parsable output" using flag (like alr...
over 5 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration

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...
6 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Enabling FDMI hostname visibility for NPIV

FDMI is most commonly used for hostname visibility from SAN ports. This visibility can be used for checking the hostname from SAN and for automation of SAN provisioning with end to end processes. Currently only physical HBA on AIX can provide FDMI...
over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

LKU uptime

Hello, it will be nice to see date and time of last successfull LKU, command like uptime for LKU output will be exact time and date when was LKU performed successfully. thank youRegards,Dany
4 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Please provide possibility to add 'vlan_tag' to 'vios' management objects on NIM

As of now [ AIX 7300-02-01-2346 ], the current design of VIOS objects does not include support for VLAN tags :-( # lsnim -q define -t standalone | grep vlan-a vlan_tag=<value>-a vlan_pri=<value> # lsnim -q define -t vios | grep vlan
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

RBAC Domain assignment for a file gets lost when cp is used.

When using Domain RBAC to implement access restrictions to files based on classifications. i.e. CONFIDENTIAL or SECRET as a domain name. However, when a domain SECRET is assigned to a file in directory /secret/ and someone with access to the file ...
almost 3 years ago in AIX 2 Planned for future release

Automatic Disk space reclamation option for alt_rootvg_op command

When freeing up saved rootvg with alt_rootvg_op command it would be very helpful to add an additional option for doing automatic space reclamation to the disk subsystem where the alt_rootvg resides on.
over 4 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

AIX LDAP Client (secldapclntd) Performance Enhancement

Current AIX secldapclntd implementation consumes significant resources and provides slow respond under larger load (thousends of clients). More info in support cases TS009747392 and TS009832647.
over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

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. ...
8 months ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

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