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rw_max_time change to 30

I want to be able to set the minimum value of "rw_max_time" which is the attribute value of hdisk to 30.
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Build date restriction prevent customer from upgrading across AIX TL levels.

Customer : Kaiser Permanente Customer has over 2000 AIX servers running with AIX 7.2 TL01 SP06. When we try to upgrade them to AIX 7.2 TL03 SP02 But it failed because AIX 7.2 TL01 SP06 was released after AIX 7.2 TL03 SP02. AIX 7.2 TL01 SP06 is hav...
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Permanent fix for resilency on NLQ feature on WEX

We need permanent fix on NLQ feature on WATSON explorer (IBM product)..disabling the port is not a permanent solution...we need permanent solution on this.
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Add mksysb flag for barebone boot image

Opening RFE from a recent case situation. Customer has an environment where the mksysbs taken of all production LPARs are over 30GB in size. Recommendation is to add a flag to the mksysb command that only backs up the system critical FS/LVs and fi...
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Hitting a limitation and if any applications area accessing /dev/kmem during an LKU, it will cause it to fail.

Please find the below investigation & work around report for live update, and let me know if any concerns, thanks.. @Two type of issues stopping our Live update project:- 1- The following process stopping ( /dev/kem Java & machine.jar (App...
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

"Although the 'prtgblconfig -s ERRMSGCONTROL=ALLOFF' setting can be used to prevent informative messages from being written t

"Although the 'prtgblconfig -s ERRMSGCONTROL=ALLOFF' setting can be used to prevent informative messages from being written to user terminals, qdaemon will still (by it's usage of the systell/sysmsg functions) write messages to /dev/console, and I...
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

change the AIX 72 sctape driver to return dk_stat sturcture so iostat can read the data and display it

iostat -ap 1 1 does not show the SAS attached tape drive System configuration: lcpu=32 drives=12 paths=28 vdisks=1 tapes=0 The ATAPE driver does not support this drive attached via SAS (or USB), so we cannot just switch drivers.
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

SMC-R support for VIO client

To enhance AIX VIO client performance, the use of SMC-R in conjunction with vNIC and LPM would be of value.
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Support sudo ldap on AIX

sudo-ldap is supported. I see various clients using it. It is in AIX Tools website: http://www.aixtools.net/index.php/sudo-ldap Looks like IBM AIX officially does not support sudo-ldap. The naming service is coming from LDAP and authentication fro...
over 5 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

Seri not supported by Secured Browser

Seri doesn't work with Secured Browser
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

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