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NIM-HTTP-Service: Feature to change the temporary download location

Currently a small package installation via NIM-HTTP will cause a download of the whole lpp_source (>8GB) into /tmp/_nim_dir_$$. This is very inefficient, slow and always needs lot's of space in /tmp. A small and quick feature gain would be a po...
2 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Modernizing WPAR Technology in AIX (Linux-like Containerization)

I would like to address the future of containerization in IBM AIX. Since the proposal for "Docker on AIX" did not receive approval, I suggest an alternative approach: investing in the development of WPAR technology to align it with modern containe...
3 months ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

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
3 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

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...
5 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

aclput -R --ignoredirectory -i mycl /dir

I need to apply an AIXC ACL to the thousands of files in a directory tree as quickly as possible. The aclput -R command seems usable, but it also applies the ACL to the subdirectories found in the tree. As the acl is defined with rw-rw---- permiss...
6 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Mitigate security risk VOLATILE TE - tsd entries after efix installation

Why is this necessary? After applying an efix (for example security fixes) the TE (Trusted Execution) tsd.dat is modified and stanza are replace with keyword VOLATILE. This happens for the replaced binaries (executables) and libraries, that were r...
7 months ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Provide a way to display the current smbc reauthentication timer value for a share

EMC servers don't accept asynchronous authentication data (in other words, a Session Setup Request with new credentials sent on an already established session). They return an error, interrupting service. Since reauthentication can't be disabled i...
7 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Disable update of AIX 7.2 with AIX 7.3 packages

If someone by mistake chooses AIX 7.3 LPP source or image to update packages on AIX 7.2, AIX (installp) starts installing the packages from AIX 7.3 on AIX 7.2. The result is non-functioning system which has half AIX 7.2 and half AIX 7.3 packages. ...
7 months ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

login messages should be seen with username instead of userid

Syslog reports: aixtest unix: The privilege command /usr/bin/vmstat, is executed by user with id 205 it would be helpful to see the username instead - even the best admin has not all userids in mind
8 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

alias be registerd in the niminfo file

To use IBM DB2, we need to configure the /etc/hosts file as follows:x.x.x.x nimmaster.ss.local nimmasterDue to this configuration, when registering the NIM client, it gets registered as nimmaster.ss.local instead of nimmaster, which results in the...
10 months ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

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