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Search results: AIX

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Add feature to report size (df) based on quota set on fileset(gpfs) rather than filesystem size for AIX

On system with GPFS filesystems when quotas are enforced for a fileset (other than the root fileset), the numbers reported by the df command are based on the quotas for the fileset (rather than the entire file system). This option affects the df c...
almost 4 years ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

Environment variables in crontab files

In Linux you may specify environment variables for cron jobs in the crontab. Like: SHELL=/bin/bashPATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/binMAILTO=root01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly AIX doesn't have such feature, but it would be good to have it.
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

NFS 4.1 and 4.2 functionality on AIX

we need NFS version 4.1 and 4.2 support in AIX (at least NFS-client side!) In Linux we do have NFS 4.1 and 4.2 support: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/storage_administration_guide/ch-nfs currently AIX...
over 5 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Write preference pthread_rwlock_wrlock

Db2 pureScale provides extreme availability, extreme scalability, and workload consolidations for mission critical OLTP applications that demand 7x24x365 availability. Today, Db2 pureScale is supported on AIX and Linux on POWER and Intel Linux. A ...
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

64-bit Dtfile for CDE

AIX LPARS with Linux NFS servers cannot use the CDE graphical file manager (dtfile) to manage 64-bit file systems. Cause: In getdirent(), the inode number and cookie size is checked. It they are 64 bit, but the application is 32 bit, an EOVERFLOW...
over 2 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Allow default setting of 'home' and 'shell' user attributes

Some customers will have their system's users defined remotely through LDAP or a similar module; these users might be defined on Windows AD, for example. Although typically there should be the ability to set a user's home directory and shell on th...
over 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

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...
over 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

We need help for LDAP configuration

We have configured the LDAP client on AIX server but unable to get user details from AD server. As per IBM team we need to made changes at AD server end but we have more than 2000 users and we cant made changes for every user So we need your help....
over 4 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Prisma security SW agents on Power

Riyad Bank (and others) requesting Prisma to be installed on Power. Agents to be installed on AIX , VIOS and Linux on Power.
about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

add support for AIX and IBM i in yarnpkg

Yarn is a package manager for Javascript projects (https://yarnpkg.com/). It is used in many open and closed source projects for dependency management. As for now yarn doesn't support big endian architectures, such as AIX and IBM i. It means, that...
over 2 years ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

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