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My ideas: AIX

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Integrate AIX software repositories (including Toolbox) with RHEL Satellite for central management of both operating systems.

We use the RHEL satellite (and Foreman) for all Linux hosts, why not integrate also AIX here and then maybe also use the insights software for monitoring and reporting.
2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Free Tier of IBM AIX to Support Education, Ecosystem Growth, and Promote IBM Cloud

Problem Description: The IBM AIX operating system is a powerful and respected platform, but its accessibility is currently very limited. The high costs associated with purchasing dedicated Power Systems hardware and software licenses create a sign...
3 months ago in AIX 1 Submitted

TS2290 and 7226-1U3 (LTO-9) SAS HH Tape drive support AIX & VIOS

LTO-9 SAS HH connected 7226 tape drives are not supported in AIX / VIOS partitions and may log VRSAS_FABRIC_ERROR, SRN2D11-4101 Please resolve this issue as soon as possible.SSIC is supported, but power is not.We would like to provide a SAS card t...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Change the entstat 'Adapter Data Rate' to reflect the actual / current negotiated link speed vs the maximum speed.

Example: PCIe3 2 PORT 25/10/1 Gb NIC&ROCE SFP28 ADAPTER The entstat 'adapter data rate' attribute is hardcoded to report the maximum data rate for the adapter regardless of the actual link speed. This is can be misleading and not helpful when ...
3 months 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...
4 months 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...
4 months 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)
4 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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...
5 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

fix lsof so it will show open files when using Storge Scale

IBM documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.2.1?topic=cluster-restarting-large-storage-scale lists lsof as a way to check for open files when stopping down Storage Scale, yet when you run lsof against a file in Storage Scale, it ...
6 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

When dynamically moving processors from one lpar to another snmp no longer reports accurate processor information

When dynamically moving processors from one lpar to another snmp no longer reports accurate processor information: INT MAX for moved processors confuses reports: hrProcessorLoad.1 = 2147483647 Also snmp does not match processor sequential number t...
6 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted