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AIX

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Save and Restore WPAR

After restwpar, cannot exportvg as it didn't contain VG ODM along with, only /dev/... file which needs to be deleted manually. Customer don't want to do this way as there are 100+ of wpars and some datavg has a lot of LVs inside. If wrongly deleti...
about 5 years ago in AIX 0 Not under consideration

paging space usage optimization

The AIX OS is keeping the Oracle DB process always in paging space after once the process uses the paging space once it's life time - Further details are referenced in the Case Hello John, Thank you for your email. As explained, AIX is designed to...
almost 7 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration

Power9 AIX 7.1 TL3 support

AIX 7.1 TL3 Power9 support to use new hardware for our existing vms
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Capability to leverage AIX MPIO & EMC PowerPath

Would like to manage RootVG LUNs by AIX MPIO and DataVGs / LUNs to be managed by DELL - EMC Multipath - PowerPath.
about 7 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

Allow the specification of minage to be less than a week

Currently value set for minage is in weeks and the smallest value to enter is 1, equating to 1 week. This value is to high and we would like the ability to specify minage in hours or days.
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Stateful filtering in ipsec

we want to achieve stateful filtering along with tunnel (VPN) traffic to be processed by AIX machines.But ipsec/ipfilter kernel extensionsare replacing each others function address rather than chaining them.Hence Tom Philip from IBM development su...
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

PMR visualizer and analytics

In a company with compute resources in many countries where system administrators, both employees and sourced resources, create SR´s with their own ibm id. The total ongoing PMR´s cannot be global view-able by everyone in the team as of today. I w...
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

AIX Toolbox

More software teams are using the Linux tools in the AIX Toolbox. There is no coordination between these teams. It is very frustrating when tyring to install software such as WebSphere when the GUI installers require Linux tools in order to work.W...
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

AIX 7.2 LKU support RAM disk

support of RAM DISK for AIX 7.2 LKU operation
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Yum on AIX - Avoid yumrepo listing via http and use another Method

Hi Team, We are using yum on AIX and using https to list the RPM's and the directories same as its listed at IBM site https://developer.ibm.com/articles/configure-yum-on-aix/. For Example: We are using baseurl and https as suggested by IBM (exampl...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration