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LKU uptime

Hello, it will be nice to see date and time of last successfull LKU, command like uptime for LKU output will be exact time and date when was LKU performed successfully. thank youRegards,Dany
6 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Enable per-UID network routing like iptables

In most if not all Linux distributions, iptables is used for network routing. IPTables enables routing per UID like so: sudo ip rule add uidrange 1001-1001 table user_wlp sudo ip route add default via 192.168.53.14 table user_wlp This will set the...
15 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

update the summ published version with some of the internal new details

The currently summ published version (2.0 from 2021) could benefit of a new publishing with some of the apparent improvements in the internal version (specially verbosity about target ports and WWPN being decoded in some vfchost messages). Obvious...
16 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Increase errpt time granularity to milliseconds

Modify the timestamp associated to the error messages in errpt to milliseconds (or even ns) to provide better correlation capacity with other elements (switches, storage arrays, ...) Currently when evaluating entries in errpt the maximum granulari...
16 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Customer is requesting for new additional functionality of reclaiming space automatically when files are deleted

Customer is requesting for new additional functionality of reclaiming space automatically when files are deleted instead of shrinking fs with chfs reclaim option (normal or fast)
17 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Add secure DNS resolution to AIX

Currently, the AIX DNS resolver is not secure, and AIX will accept any tampered response as valid. With the current AIX, the only way to have secure resolution is to configure a local bind. Add a DNSSEC resolver option that validates DNSSEC respon...
about 1 month ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Implement RFC3442 to include Classless Static Route Option 121 in DHCP

We would like to use the DHCP option 121. This option is introduced in the RFC3442. IBM confirmed that this RFC us currently not implemented. The introduction of this RFC3442 makes our life much easier, because we don't need to wait for the interf...
about 1 month ago in AIX 2 Submitted

nconnect NFS mount option for AIX

It will be useful to have nconnect NFS mount option like in Linux world available in AIX also to improve performance of NFS mounts for WAN connections and / or for connections with limited bandwith per one tcp session. In AIX NFS mount uses only o...
about 2 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in AIX 0 Under review

Support for disable a device across reboots, FC-adapter.

VIO server (and std AIX servers), when boot is on local nvme and additional disk (lets say appsvg) in in SAN storage. The extra disk in "appsvg" is used for verification/troubleshooting plus as extra space for various reasons. When one do an alt_d...
about 2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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