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AIX

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...
15 days ago in AIX 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...
11 days ago in AIX Submitted

replace nimsh for ssh

we have seen multiple security issues with very high CVE scores in the recent past with nimsh ssh is more robust and easier to include in firewall rules than nimsh as that requires ranges of ports
3 days ago in AIX Submitted

Planning, Controller, Watsonx BI og and Cognos in one portal

Why have 4 portals to maintain for Planning Analytics, Controller, Watsonx BI and Cognos. Make one portal for all the Analytics products and you will have the strongest analytics solution in the world. The the customers can buy roles and can just ...
19 days ago in AIX Submitted

Modify process's credentials include primary group and secondary groups

I heard that process’s credentials include only the primary group by default, and secondary groups are not automatically applied. I want to design change because weblogic (web server) process's credentials should include the primary group and subg...
2 months ago in AIX Submitted

AIX Toolbox needs feature parity with RHEL.

By not having a fat FOSS layer, IBM is self-selecting AIX out of consideration for the vast majority of ISVs out there. Note that I have nothing but praise and respect for the team that is keeping the Toolbox alive on a shoestring budget, but they...
4 months ago in AIX Submitted

Native AIX syslog function should support encrypted logs when forwarding to a central syslog server

In this day and age of OS security-awareness and its importance within operating systems (being available out of the box), critical OS logging functions such as syslog should support encrypting the logs if they need to be forwarded to a central co...
6 months ago in AIX Submitted

Include important software as LPP on AIX, and support it.

Nowadays, a lot of AIX systems include software that comes from RPM packages. I understand why AIX supports RPM packages, as developers/vendors from the Linux space tend to distribute their software in RPM form. A lot of software that is typically...
10 months ago in AIX Submitted

One location for software downloads

IBM AIX is a great product. But most users install software on their machines that is supplied by IBM but does not come with AIX. Examples are sudo, openssh, java, lsof, Python3, perl etc. Many of which are from the AIX Web Download Pack (https://...
10 months ago in AIX Submitted

`xargs` should support `-0`/`--null` parameter

xargs on AIX currently does not implement -0. While this is not part of the POSIX standard ( AFAIK, please check), it is implemented by every other implementation, including FreeBSD's. While the OSS toolbox's implementation /opt/freeware/bin/xargs...
6 months ago in AIX Submitted

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