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AIX

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    AIX, VIOS and HMC Lifecycle Information API

    Dear Team, Looks like there is no API available to fetch table data from the below VIOs and AIX pages. It would be a nice to have feature, If there is an API available similar to FLRT API. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/powervm-vios-lifecycle-i...
    almost 2 years ago in AIX 1 Planned for future release

    Addition of Input Modules and Message Modification Modules to AIX rsyslog

    We request the compilation of AIX rsyslog with the mmnormalize, impstats, immark, mmcount and mmjsonparse modules. This is necessary for our production and homologation servers. https://www.rsyslog.com/normalizer-first-steps-for-mmnormalize/ Input...
    about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Add secure DNS resolution to AIX

    Currently, the AIX DNS resolver is not secure, and AIX will accept any tampered response as valid. With the current AIX, the only way to have secure resolution is to configure a local bind. Add a DNSSEC resolver option that validates DNSSEC respon...
    11 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    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.
    almost 5 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

    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 ...
    over 3 years ago in AIX 2 Planned for future release

    Autoconfig attribute for the nvmeX devices

    For unused fcnvme devices and unused fscsi devices, we provide an "autoconfig" options which allows us to put such devices in a semi-permanent Defined state. The customer would like an autoconfig attribute on the nvmeX devices as well, such that h...
    5 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Provide 64-bit build of BIND/named on AIX to remove MAXDATA constraints

    Because of increasing memory demand we have named crashes that lead to production outages. named is shipped as a 32-bit binary at the moment which limits the amount of memory it can allocate. Please ship named as a 64-bit binary which will not rel...
    5 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    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 4 years ago in AIX 5 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
    about 2 years 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...
    almost 2 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

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