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AIX

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As par compliance requirement, we need to generate daily report on HADR sysnc report with timestamp. This is required for maintain required RPO/RTO as par business requirement. We need report in attached format please suggest how same can be produ...
about 5 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Allow AIX PCM to manage RootVG & DELL-EMC PowerPath to EMC LUNs

Enable AIX PCM (native multipath) to manage RootVG and DELL-EMC PowerPath to manage the Storage LUNs provisioned from DELL-EMC Storage Device
about 5 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Encrypted bootable AIX mksysb Tape

As confirmed in IBM ticket: TS001985362, currently there's no encryption available for mksysb to tape. We'd like to put up this feature request for the encryption feature to be available in the bootable mksysb tape for AIX.
about 5 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

NIC fiber light measurement

Per Networking I/O Development, we do not have an ethernet-adapter based optics dbM measurement tool for AIX other than diagnostics run with wrap plugs to verify the card and its gbic modules. However, per Development, it's not out of reason to re...
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Provide a usable lpstat tool in AIX

In some of our AIX environments we use / want to use printing to remote print servers. For this we configure local print queues. They point to the different print servers, which are sometimes built in interface cards in the printers or external pr...
about 5 years ago in AIX 8 Not under consideration

FROM AIX in Dockerfile

This Request For Enhancement is for allowing the usage of FROM AIX in the Dockerfile.
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

AIX IPSec improvements for regulation compliance

In the context of French "Loi de Programmation Militaire" regulation, ANSSI requests to implement IPSec between application workloads when using microsegmentation.According to ANSSI recommendations and BNP-Paribas security rules, IPsec on AIX must...
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 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...
over 5 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration

Permanent fix for resilency on NLQ feature on WEX

We need permanent fix on NLQ feature on WATSON explorer (IBM product)..disabling the port is not a permanent solution...we need permanent solution on this.
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Request AIX patch to support RDX media 4TB for AIX6.1 and AIX7.1

I would like to request for AIX patch or driver to support RDX media 4TB for backup usage for AIX6.1 and AIX7.1.
over 5 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration