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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...
1 day 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 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Enable per-UID network routing like iptables

In most if not all Linux distributions, iptables is used for network routing. IPTables enables routing per UID like so: sudo ip rule add uidrange 1001-1001 table user_wlp sudo ip route add default via 192.168.53.14 table user_wlp This will set the...
20 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Implement RFC3442 to include Classless Static Route Option 121 in DHCP

We would like to use the DHCP option 121. This option is introduced in the RFC3442. IBM confirmed that this RFC us currently not implemented. The introduction of this RFC3442 makes our life much easier, because we don't need to wait for the interf...
about 2 months ago in AIX 2 Submitted

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
11 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Add secure DNS resolution to AIX

Currently, the AIX DNS resolver is not secure, and AIX will accept any tampered response as valid. With the current AIX, the only way to have secure resolution is to configure a local bind. Add a DNSSEC resolver option that validates DNSSEC respon...
about 1 month ago in AIX 0 Submitted

rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets exit with error.

starting with version 4.6 rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets (all but %pre and %preun) exit with error. IMHO this breaks legacy rpm behaviour (i.e. pre version 4.6) and leads to misunderstandings since a simple test on the rpm exit code is not rel...
4 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Implement IO tuning parameter value for 'dk_closed_path_recovery=1' by default

Enable 'health_check' command to run on paths to disks, which are not open and active in the kernel, by default as to allow automatic recovery.
12 months ago in AIX 2 Submitted

Addition of Input Modules and Message Modification Modules to AIX rsyslog

We request the compilation of AIX rsyslog with the mmnormalize, impstats, immark, mmcount and mmjsonparse modules. This is necessary for our production and homologation servers. https://www.rsyslog.com/normalizer-first-steps-for-mmnormalize/ Input...
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...
21 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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