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Improve ALUA support to include "STANDBY" status

At the moment the storage subsystem in AIX does not have support for ALUA Standby. Implementing this state would allow larger flexibility in the interaction between an AIX system and the Storage arrays.
over 1 year ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX 7.2 Repackaging of Network Applications

AIX 7.2 Repackaging of Network Applicationsin Fine Granularity I want to remove below tcp fileset without removing idsldap and should be able to perform rte install. bos.net.tcp.clientbos.net.tcp.serverbos.net.tcp.bindbos.net.tcp.bootpbos.net.tcp....
about 5 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

fcstat and underlying APIs - show fabric IDs

My storage team flipped out when I started including fabric IDs with my requests for zoning. It's available as HBA_PORTATTRIBUTES->FabricName from HBA_GetAdapterPortAttributes. Not sure why perfstat_fcstat_t wouldn't include it or provide anoth...
over 2 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

AIX watch_config_files script used by installp not call if updates failed

Normaly, nim installp updates for a client will call script watch_config_files script that will validate if files listed in /etc/check_config.files has been change during the updates, and if yes, will list the differences in a file /var/adm/ras/co...
over 6 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

AIX - Integrate Python programming language on AIX base operating system

Integrate Python programming language on AIX base operating system.
almost 5 years ago in AIX 5 Delivered

filesystem shrinking with multiple threads

The current shrinkfs functionality of AIX does not scale well and only uses one thread for moving data during a shrink. Since during the work of shrinkfs the filesystem is quiesced to avoid conflicts with new I/O, this can cause applications to bl...
over 3 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Live Update support for Oracle ASM using raw Logical Volumes

Oracle ASM raw disks are supported in Live Update, but Oracle ASM using raw Logical Volume are not. This will result in following errors durinng LKU:1020-154 Resource /dev/rlvasm02 is not checkpointable (pid: 6685096) (name: oracle). Query returne...
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX Live Kernel Update - autofs support

AIX Live Update doesn't work on systems with mounts of the type "autofs" although these are just created by the automount daemon and do not affect any critical issue for Live Update.
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Write preference pthread_rwlock_wrlock

Db2 pureScale provides extreme availability, extreme scalability, and workload consolidations for mission critical OLTP applications that demand 7x24x365 availability. Today, Db2 pureScale is supported on AIX and Linux on POWER and Intel Linux. A ...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

eerrpt A7004761

Currently when an IBM Power system running aix has its HAK (ie hardware access key) expire each and every lpar on the system logs: BFE4C025 1201160618 P H sysplanar0 UNDETERMINED ERRORBFE4C025 1201075618 P H sysplanar0 UNDETERMINED ERRORBFE4C025 1...
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

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