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Request to fix chauthent command

Running 'chauthent -std' or 'chauthent -k5 -std' willuncomment shell/kshell/login/klogin entries in inetd.conf and refresh inetd automatically. This behavior needs to change, to avoid inadvertantly activating non-secure or otherwise unwantedservic...
almost 3 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Need new Era year (GENGO) support for AIX Japanese environment

Japan's Emperor Akihito will step down in April 2019. His abdication will mark the end of the Heisei era, and he would be immediately succeeded by his son Crown Prince Naruhito on 1 May, which would start a new imperial era.https://www.bbc.com/new...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX mirror pool enhancements

Basic LVM mirroring has been available in AIX for years and it is great. The added value of mirror pools should come from the ease in maintaining for example 2 copies across 2 remote sites. It should help in making absolutely sure there is a compl...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

NPIV VFC driver change request

AIX NPIV VFC driver must be more aggressive in error recovery in cases where VIOS is not servicing commands in a timely manner. The issue can be easily recreated by stopping the VIOS in kdb.
about 6 years ago in AIX 6 Delivered

creating a new field whenever the user account is created.

Whenever a Unix account is created, there is no field to determine when this account was created on the system. The time_last_login field is populated only when the user successfully logins. IBM should create a new field in the lastlog file where ...
about 5 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Option to crash the system during low page condition

In an clustered environment, an application may encounter a rogue query that uses up all of the memory and subsequently the paging space in an lpar. Eventually that application will get killed by the pgspkill function in AIX. While this allows the...
over 5 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Firmware-assisted Dump on Veritas DMP multipath software

currently firmware assisted dump work only on MPIO managed system. Please enable support for Veritas DMP managed systems too.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 0 Delivered

AIX live update for vxfs filesystem

Please enable AIX live update support on systems got Veritas DMP/VXVM/VXFS infoscale products.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

NAT Traversal Support for IKEv2

IBM AIX does not support NAT Traversal support for IKE V2/Transport Mode. This capability is required to support the LPM environment in french customers.
over 4 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Require Sendmail 8.15.x version

Require IBM supported sendmail version 8.15.X to leverage the features included in the newer version. We want to disable the weak ciphers and allow only TLS
about 7 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

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