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Welcome to AIX - All Intricacies eXplained List of AIX commands lacking documentation: mkinstallp (create installable packages) imfs (create FS entries in /etc/filesystems)

Steps to upgrade AIX TL ( technology Level ) / Maintenance Level in AIX ( including Firmware HMC VIOS ) This article or post covers upgrades for - Hardware Management Console ( HMC ) - Firmware ( also known as microcode ) - VIO ( Virtual I/O Server = PowerVM ) - AIX Version, Technology...

There are quite many nifty little tricks, which can make life easier for the AIX administrator carrying out typical tasks in his job. I'll start the collection, suggestions will be highly welcome and added here when they are messaged to me. No, i don't claim to have found out myself what stands...

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Hi We meet errors while running configuration scripts to prepare compiling source code on AIX 7.2. This error does not happen on AIX5.3 and AIX6.1 With the “/usr/bin/sh” from AIX7.2, sometimes , the script runs sucessfully, sometimes not. It’s unstable, and I don’t know why. When...

I just intalled java8_64.jre and .sdk respectively installp -agXYd . Java8_64.jre Java8_64.sdk 2>&1 | tee installp.log Worked like a champ. Now I see this-- jeff@server:/usr> ls -l | grep java drwxr-xr-x 9 bin bin 512 Sep 22 2010 java14 drwxr-xr-x 7 bin bin ...

In AIX servers, for mounting NAS mount points only 1021 1022 1023 are used as source ports on more than 300 servers while destination port on storage end is 2049, is there any settings on servers where these ports are defined for mounting NAS mount points? Any body faced this scenario? Thanks

greetings, just ran across a fun situation we had overlooked. We have a backdoor user, no special privileges, which we put on every server so that anyone in the shop can get in (passwd in vault) if they need to, even if they don't have a local account on that server. The point of course is to...

A team member installed the wrong version of License Code on a Power 740 system used in our Development environment. The system will no longer boot. Does anyone have IBM documentation or experience to share on recovering a system that currently reports "Unsupported License Code version...

Dear all, i have a virtual tape connected to a vhost1 SVSA Physloc Client Partition ID --------------- -------------------------------------------- ------------------ vhost1 U8202.E4C.066BC9R-V1-C3 0x00000003...

Apologies for this newbie question. We have inherited an IBM p5 520 (9111-520) running AIX 6.1.0.0 which seems to be the base install and no further patches installed. Is this vulnerable to the Spectre/Meltdown threat? Are patches available? Looks like AIX 6.1.0.0 went 'end of support' in...

I have searched this quite a long time but couldn't find the right method for me to use. I need to assign read write permission to the user for specific directories and it's sub directories and files. I do not want to use ACL. I do not want to assign user the same group of that directories too....

Hello, POWER7 machine. 4 x 1Gbit port ethernet adapter is dedicated to vios. 8023ad etherchannel is created using those 4 ports. Etherchannel adapter is shared to lpars using SEA. If I test network performance directly from vios partition (using iperf) I'm geting nice 4Gbit throughput. But if...

The root filesystem was mirrored, someone/something stopped mirroring, and increased / and /home to ridiculous values (/ got increased to 102gb and its only using 4.3gb, so 98gb is free). Can I reduce the / (/dev/hd4) filesytem down WITHOUT corrupting the the OS? I would do a: chfs -a size=10g...

Hello, Does anyone know how to housekeeping the null 2>&1 file in /dev? its fill up my system, please help. Thanks :b:

This question is asked in an interview today that I have to return output with each PID number and the count of each PID number logged today. Here is the script that I have written. Can you confirm if that would work or not. The interviewer didn't said if my answer is correct or not. Can someone...

I have a requirement and below is the detail. Create a shell script and needs to run in server "a". Connect to teradata database server "b". execute the .sql file from server "a" Save the output of the query to a file in server "a" Schedule this shell script to run every day for every 4...

At company I joined it seems I cannot trace install DVD (5765-G99 - AIX Enterprise 7.1) but according invoice I found we are entitled for it. It seems that support for account expired and I cannot download any software/updates except HMC ones :( Anybody knows which exact version (TL,...

Hello, Due to disk failure I lost certain lv. Before running reducevg I'm trying to remove lv by using rmlv: 0516-1008 rmlv: Logical volume xxx must be closed. If the logical volume contains a filesystem, the umount command will close the LV device. lv is still open: # lslv xxx...

Hi everyone ! Im trying to know from wich version of AIX KSH93 is available ? Internet tell me 6.x and 7.x AIX are available, bue what about 5.x ? Is KSH93 available on AIX 5.x ? Is it the same way to manipulate variables as KSH93 on 7.x ? Thanks for your support and have a nice day !

Hello, On 4/20/2018, we performed a disk replacement on our IBM 8202 P7 server. After the disk was rebuilt, the SAS Disk Array sissas0 showed a status of degraded. However, the pdisks in the array all show a status of active. We did see a message in errpt. DISK ARRAY PROTECTION SUSPENDED. ...

I'm trying to create file system in lv Ctxdata but I got this message # crfs -v jfs2 -d Ctxdata -m /Ctxfs -A yes File system created successfully."no file created" 2621156 kilobytes total disk space. /etc/locks/fs/Ctxdata: No space left on device # crfs -v jfs2 -d Ctxdata -m /Ctxfs -A...

We need gcc 7.2 on AIX 7.2 and so I tried to install the rpm package from IBM (<https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/alpha.html>) The steps were as follows (I downloaded all packages from the given IBM toolbox page): # :-)rpm -ihv gcc-7.2.0-1.aix7.2.ppc.rpm error:...

After I had successfully installed bash I wanted to install emacs. I downloaded the packages from IBM (emacs, emacs-nox, and emacs-X11), but I could not install emacs-X11. It needs libjpeg and libtiff, but I couldn't install both libs. Error messages: file /opt/freeware/64 from install of...

We have a new LPAR with AIX 7.2. We want to work with bash, so installed bash from Perzl (bash_64-4.4.5.aix5.1.ppc.rpm). But after install bash does not work. If I call "bash", nothing happens. The xterm, where I started bash, is totally dead. I tried the bash from aixtools.net, too. Same...

I have a NIMOL(nim on linux) server working. It do a full backup of my rootvg with those commands nimol_config -r -L old-2018 nimol_config -m /usr/bin/ssh -C -L new-2018 nimol_backup -c ibmaix -L new-2018 My question is: is possible like hp-ux do with "make_tape_recovery" a FULL...

How do I determine the resources needed based on volume of transactions. By resources I mean, the cores, memory etc. Is there a way to arrive at that value?

in the /etc/sudoer file this line was added: wtolentino ALL=(ORACLE) NOPASSWD: /bin/chmod when i tried to run this command sudo -u oracle /bin/chmod 775 /appshared/applications/lpa/executables/chrpt001.rep it prompts me for a password for example:

Hi guys , I would like to check if there is any command I can list the inactive user with not log in more than 50 days? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

Hi Guys I'm new here, and I need urgent help. This my first steps to be Aix admin and I have this task -instal Oracle database on Aix machine and create mounting point /u02 of size 100GB for Oracle Standalone database installation. -download and install the following OS patches - IV42025...

Hi everyone, I am trying to configure AIX 6.1 using syslogd to send syslog event to syslog server configured on RHEL. However, RHEL never receives the events. I have tried to redirect the syslog event on AIX to a local file and successful. Only forwarding to remote server fails. Firewall...

hi boys. how i can schedule a script with crontab ever 5 minutes . Regards Francesco

We found out that the Spectrum Scale (GPFS) doesnt support mix nodes (AIX and RHEL) on direct attached storage. Is there any other options besides NFS for mix O/S? Trying to avoid network type of shared filesystem which might end up high traffic on IO because we do run backup jobs on those...

I'll start with I'm not an AIX expert, I inherited a lot of AIX servers to maintain. My problem is on AIX 7.1 TL4 SP4 environments. I'm running named as a DNS forwarder only to internal DNS servers. These AIX servers have a customized UDP ephemeral port range to avoid conflicting with the...

Hi, I have a little issue right now. I have a file with 4 columns test0000002,10030010330,c_,218 test0000002,10030010330,d_,202 test0000002,10030010330,b_,193 test0000002,10030010020,c_,178 test0000002,10030010020,b_,170 test0000002,10030010330,a_,166 test0000002,10030010020,a_,151...

Hi, How can we edit ssh_config file on HMC server. Best regards,

This discussion thread is an extension to what was discussed in Shell scripting section. Please refer the post for the requirement: Requirement Post - Click Here The whole thread - Click Here I would like to know how I can use NDM to transfer file from AIX to Mainframe and to verify the...

Hi Everyone, We have IBM p730 that I am trying to booting up to AIX 7.1. But it stops at RUNTIME. C7004087 C7004091 C7004091 (show is code number twice) STANDBY RUNTIME

Hi, This has been pestering me for quite a while, any help will be highly appreciated The current directory has a file with below name npidata_20050523-20171210.csv The below wildcard matched the above file

Can somebody help me too identify full path to socket library on AIX? Cannot find anything Thanks for contribution

I have a make file for C program, which always gives the error ld: 0711-738 ERROR: Input file ../src/file_name.o XCOFF32 object files are not allowed in 64 mode Does anybody know the problem? Thanks for contribution

We are experiencing around 1minute IO delays on Oracle DB including both read and write operations even for writing <1kB or reading single 8kB block. Below is the output of iostat -D -T 60 1000 for the problematic time periods asmdata03 xfer: %tm_act bps tps bread bwrtn ...

Hello all, I've got a production system that the DBA complained that the vi command was no longer working for the oracle service account for a particular instance. When I logged in as myself, I noticed that it wasn't working for my user either. When invoked, it just returns to the prompt with an...

Hello all, I am using AIX 7.1 and whenever xml files with accented French characters are read, for example Name Andree where the first e has accented mark on top, AIX should it as Andrée but it comes as funny number characters for the first e. What do I need to fix this. I want to test with one...