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tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]"? Support Regexp Adaptation Under Heterogeneous Collation Rules

1. A regex pattern is used by a regular expression engine for attempting to match in input text. A pattern consists of one or more character literals, operators, or constructs. 2. In regex, the character classes in regular expressions are an extre...
over 5 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

SAN Tape Support in AIX LKU Live Kernel update

We using Spectrum protect LAN Free Backup with SAN NPIV Tapes for backup big Oracle SAP Databases fast. Currently there is no Live Kernel update possible because of the missing support of LKU with NPIV Tapes.
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX Filesystem shrink monitoring and performance #chfs command

AIX filesystem shrink can take a significant length of time for a large shrink operation (hours). During this time the filesystem is frozen, impacting applications.There are no tools to monitor the progress or to terminate the operation cleanly if...
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Keep existing lvmo options after exportvg

When lvmo option is set on a VG (i.e. pv_min_pbuf parameter) and the VG is exported and reimported on the same or on another LPAR .
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX - Integrate Python programming language on AIX base operating system

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

When deletes are done against the file system, that storage is not unmapped

When deletes are done against the file system, that storage is not unmapped. It appears as though it only gets unmapped if you remove a lvm and nothing more granular.
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Show ssh arguments in process table

Please enable/show the arguments passed to ssh in a ps (process table) output. On AIX all openssh versions (except version 6.0.0.6204) do not show the arguments passed to the command in a ps (process table) output > lslpp -l openssh.base.client...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

MPIO should provide a mechanism to degrade path that return errors

Currently, AIX MPIO PCM provides a mechanism to mark paths as degraded and even fail them when reaching rw_timeout.In some cases (fabric physical degradation) those paths may have been showing errors well in advance or the storage may have aborted...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX Fast I/O error recovery on redundant storage environment

There are many redundancy solutions for robust disk I/O availability - redundant HBAs, redundant SAN switches and redundant storage system. After apply IJ10537(included in AIX 7.2 TL2 SP3), almost 120 sec to recover I/O even set rw_timeout to mini...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered