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AIX SAN adapter driver support for new RDP ELS

Unfortunately, the AIX adapter driver still does not support the new RDP ELS - even on the newer SAN adapters.Are there any plans to implement support for the RDP ELS as this is very common by all SAN vendor.
about 6 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

Increase Password Length for CIFS on AIX 7.2

We have secure Windows shares that need to be mounted via CIFS on AIX 7.2 servers. Those shares have highly secure passwords that range from 16 to 20 characters in length per our Security Team requirements. The current version of the CIFS fileset ...
over 6 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Kernel supplies wrong adapter speeds

Both topas and nmon report the 40Gbit Mellanox adapter speed at 10Gbit. This is incorrect and needs updating. This applies to latest VIOS levels and AIX levels. It appears to be a general topas and nmon issue.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

HDS hdlm support for AIX Live Kernel Upgrade

We require a fully supported AIX Live Kernel Update scenario with HDS HDLM.
almost 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

SMB (CIFS)

We have been using CIFS (SMB) over a decade. We have been told by IBM that the CIFS driver is version 0.12 and there is no ETA to update to the driver to new version. CIFS is heavily used at the Bank. We have many scripts, processes and applicatio...
about 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX Failed Login count file log rotation

It is observed that if a user tries to login to a server using any account, and if it fails to login, its recording a entry in /etc/security/failedlogin file, so, if some one can script this login and keep retying 100's of 1000's of times, it can ...
about 7 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Audit command needs better errors

Errors produced by the /usr/sbin/audit command are not helpful. They need to be more specific to help diagnose and solve the problem.
almost 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Command to retrieve VIOS information etc. because kdb is unreliable and dangerous

I request to create one or more commands to be able to get information of vscsi- and vfc-host AND client adapters on lpars and vios which are currently available only via kdb.kdb is slow, not reliable, dangerous and there is a "bug" in the kernel ...
about 8 years ago in AIX 11 Delivered

AIX LKU - general performance improvement during attach/detach, currently too slow.

Improving AIX Live Kernel Update, with PowerVC, general performance would benefit many clients, but is particularly needed here due to the scale of the environment and the challenges of keeping up with code rollout schedules. Currently LKU is taki...
10 months ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Implement lsmpio -q volume name implementation based on lsmpio_map in AIX 7.2

AIX 7.3 TL1 implements an option to extract the volume name identification (and other fields) for lsmpio -q based on an hdisk attribute called lsmpio_map (AIX-I-273) We have some customers requesting this enhancement to be backported also in AIX 7...
about 1 year ago in AIX 1 Delivered

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