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AIX

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    Enhance the AIX RBAC roles isso, so, and sa

    The AIX RBAC roles isso, so, and sa have in Standard AIX a lot less rights than in Trusted AIX. It should be equal. At least for the components which are available on both AIX types.
    about 3 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

    LUN_RESET delay/timeout after I/O timeout should be a customisable value

    We have noticed a significant impact in terms of IO paused after IO timeouts since the introduction of IJ07805 / IJ07842 / IJ10537. We consider that the new timers added to the LUN Reset should be part of the ODM definition for the disk class in o...
    over 6 years ago in AIX 0 Not under consideration

    Disable update of AIX 7.2 with AIX 7.3 packages

    If someone by mistake chooses AIX 7.3 LPP source or image to update packages on AIX 7.2, AIX (installp) starts installing the packages from AIX 7.3 on AIX 7.2. The result is non-functioning system which has half AIX 7.2 and half AIX 7.3 packages. ...
    about 1 year ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

    Hitting a limitation and if any applications area accessing /dev/kmem during an LKU, it will cause it to fail.

    Please find the below investigation & work around report for live update, and let me know if any concerns, thanks.. @Two type of issues stopping our Live update project:- 1- The following process stopping ( /dev/kem Java & machine.jar (App...
    almost 6 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

    AIX should provide a method to notify the SRC that a daemon restart is triggered externally

    Provide a method for daemons, that an externally triggered restart (for example from a remote system) of a daemon is "ok" for the SRC daemon.
    over 4 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    The smbc.rte driver must be MUST more robust against IP address changes on a file server!!!!

    We have a NAS "cluster" from which we're mounting CIFS shares. We must use SMBv3 to be compliant with our InfoSec department. However, when an IP changes in our cluster, it's registered with DNS, but the smbc filesystems UTTERLY lock up. They don'...
    almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    nfsrgyd logging enhancement

    Enhanced logging added to the nfsrgyd could make it easier for an end user to determine why it is failing. For instance, if nfsrgyd needs to query a group that has very large membership, it may fail due to a buffer being too small, and the group i...
    10 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

    PAM module support

    Well-known and often-used PAM module pam_localuser is not currently available on AIX.Not integrating this module pre-compiled with the base AIX packages or through yum is a missed opportunity.It also currently impedes easy deployment of our corss-...
    over 4 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

    Ansible operation for NIM

    Almost every AIX environment has a NIM server as central point of management. Ansible requires ssh connection from Ansible controller to Ansible-managed systems. It is possible to unite both NIM as a central management server for AIX infrastructur...
    over 2 years ago in AIX 2 Under review

    Implement immediate unmap on file deletion or asynchronous automated unmap

    The current implementation of JFS2 unmap allows for the use of chfs -a reclaim=<fast|normal> filesystem This request is to implement a solution closer to other OSs/Filesystems that would remove the manual intervention and release the space a...
    over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

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