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LDAP Security with gidNumber 0

Hi IBM,The AIX implementation of LDAP allows an LDAP administrator to set a gidNumber of zero to an LDAP group, which overrides the AIX /etc/group file. Therefore, an LDAP user in a group with ID of 0, is given system group privileges on AIX. LDAP...
about 5 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...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Splitting Up Dumps into Confidential and Non-Confidential Data

Swiss banking laws do not allow access to bank customer data from abroad. For this reason it is not possible to send dumps outside of Switzerland for analysis by Labs in other countries. We would like a solution whereby dumps can be split up, ensu...
about 7 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

Request the ability to set the XCOFF header timestamps generated by the linker to NULL

system：aix7200app：makeC++SharedLiblanguage：c++The 'makeC++SharedLib' app is a helper script that invokes the AIX ld linker (not the compiler), which is used to produce shared libraries, including *.ibmcpp files. When *.o files have no changes，ever...
over 3 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

lldp daemon to be implemented for all editions of AIX 7.x.

System: AIX 7.1, AIX 7.2Customer needs the lldp daemon to be implemented for all editions of AIX 7.x.Now the lldpd service and the actual /usr/sbin/lldpd binary are part of # lslpp -w /usr/sbin/lldpd FileFileset Type /usr/sbin/lldpd ios.vnet File ...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX FC-NVMe

To improve performance of AIX based systems, support for FC-NVMe would be of value.
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Add UTF-8 support to smbc.rte

Some clients require support for UTF-8 file name encoding. Currently, smbc.rte does not provide this functionality--only characters in the range 0-127 decimal will work when UTF-8 file name encoding is chosen.
over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

LVM hardening to prevent non-detection of bad blocks in mirrored LVs

LVM mirroring can delay detection of errors on the secondary copy until the primary copy fails - leading to outages. Particularly with parallel or parallel/sequential policy and LVs with low write rates, the disk with the second copy gets relative...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

topasrec data for etherchannel adapter physical ports

topasrec reports data only for etherchannel adapters and not report the data for its physical ports."topas -E" reports data for etherchannel adapter physical ports but cannot be recorded to file (interactive only).
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

DISKRXFER stats for NVMe disks

System: OS AIX Actor: Kapi bank We are trying to use NVMe disk on AIX.How ever there is no stats for DISKRXFER for nvme disks on AIX. So we unable to control and analize perfomance.
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

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