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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.
almost 6 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.
almost 6 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

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 ...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Live Update support for Oracle ASM using raw Logical Volumes

Oracle ASM raw disks are supported in Live Update, but Oracle ASM using raw Logical Volume are not. This will result in following errors durinng LKU:1020-154 Resource /dev/rlvasm02 is not checkpointable (pid: 6685096) (name: oracle). Query returne...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

bash-completion RPM for AIX

Hello, it would be nice and useful to have bash-completion RPM ported to AIX. Bash is already available on AIX toolbox for linux application because a lot of users use it, but right now it's not possible to have custom completion of commands, TAB ...
almost 6 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Refer to case TS001953226

We have start an DB2 call for and CF memory lock issue when running DB2 Purescale. Since DB2 team have working on an Special Build for this issue, but they found their was an special request also required from AIX team for assistant.
almost 6 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX 7.2 Repackaging of Network Applications

AIX 7.2 Repackaging of Network Applicationsin Fine Granularity I want to remove below tcp fileset without removing idsldap and should be able to perform rte install. bos.net.tcp.clientbos.net.tcp.serverbos.net.tcp.bindbos.net.tcp.bootpbos.net.tcp....
almost 6 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered