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AIX

    End-to-end FC SFP Diagnostics via Read Diagnostic Parameters (RDP ELS)

    Background info Current-generation Fibre Channel adapters expose SFP transceiver diagnostics, which are readable from the OS.On IBM i, the fcioa -sfpinfo macro in SST/DST already surfaces this data.With the November 2025 GA of V7R5 TR7 and V7R6 TR...
    23 days ago in AIX 15 Submitted

    OpenSSH 10.x for AIX 7.2 / 7.3 / VIOS

    Why this is a security requirement, not a version wish Post-quantum key exchange by default. OpenSSH 10.0 makes the hybrid ML-KEM key agreement the default and adds a warning when a connection falls back to a non-quantum-safe algorithm (WarnWeak...
    14 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Enhance the nvmesed tool to query and display the TryLimit value for each PIN

    Right now there is no possibility to know how many retries are left to enter successfully a certain PIN (either user, admin or SID PIN) to unlock a NVMe SED drive. However, this information is available on the drive itself and could get queried an...
    16 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Enhance alt_rootvg_op to preserve custom alternate rootvg name across wake/sleep operations

    The alt_rootvg_op supports assigning a customer VG name to an alternate root VG, using -v. This is useful on systems that maintain multiple alternate root VGs for different purposes. For example: # lspv | grep MKSYSB hdisk0 00cc8df7ddd2f1e9 WEEKLY...
    3 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    Native needrestart command for IBM AIX

    IBM AIX would benefit from a native needrestart command similar to the functionality available on Linux systems. After installing updates, Interim Fix (iFix), Service Packs, or Technology Levels, administrators currently have no simple and standar...
    about 1 month ago in AIX 0 Submitted

    AIX 7.3 FC stack enhancement for SAN environments using Simplified, TDZ or Smart zoning.

    In modern SAN environments leveraging Simplified zoning, Target Driven Zoning or Smart Zoning, AIX or VIOS Fibre Channel ports may be exposed in fabric query responses alongside other targets.Under certain conditions this results in initiator‑to‑i...
    4 months ago in AIX 2 Under review

    Global option to prevent cron from sending mail to users

    If a command in someones crontab generates output to stdin or stderr and is not redirected a mail is geneareted to the user who ownes the crontab. While this might have been a good idea 30 years ago, it can cause serious troube in modern environme...
    4 months ago in AIX 2 Submitted

    Support LTO9 with SAS and FC direct attach on AIX

    There are many cases which it is necessary to backup AIX to external media. We and BPs have proposed RDX or LTO before, but we are now guided to propose only LTO. There are currently some problems on proposing LTO. Now AIX only supports LTO8 via S...
    over 1 year ago in AIX 0 Planned for future release

    AIX NFS client configuration with TLS

    This secures the traditional NFS traffic (that normally runs over RPC).
    5 months ago in AIX 1 Under review

    Add IPSEC tunnel features to support Ontap connection

    All AIX customers requiring IPSEC tunnels to modern nfs fileservers ONTAP currently supports three fixed IPsec cipher suites: SUITEB_GCM256: ike=aes256-sha384-ecp384! and esp=aes256gcm16-ecp384 (default)SUITEB_GMAC256: ike=aes256-sha384-ecp384! an...
    about 1 month ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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