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URGENT: Recent AIX 6 & AIX 7 Day Light Saving Time Fix for this weekend
Many countries switch to Daylight Saving Time (DST) next weekend March 25th - unfortunately you may need to apply a fix to AIX 6 and AIX 7 before the change or programs can get inconsistent time from various time function and systems calls. This could have a major impact on many tools, for example, make, logs and databases ... well just about anything that uses a time value. There was an earlier temporary fix available but now there is a fully details final fix. Please got to the bellow website for all the details :... [More]
Tags:  efix 6 posix reboot fix & day dst light olson time aix saving 7 |
Server consolidation actually works! IBM eats its own food.
I just moved our Power 5 based internal to IBM Wiki Webserver to Power 6 p570 which was recently freed up now that we (Advanced Technical Support, EMEA) are mainly working on the Power 7 machines. The Power 6 machine are still very useful for testing beta copies of new software like AIX and the end of year VIOS functions but some features are Power 7 dependent. We are removing the Power 5 machines because we are moving building and to a much smaller computer room and have to move from 15 racks down to 5 racks. We have been a little lazy in... [More]
Tags:  vios 6 storwize asmi power7 upgrade apache power webserver aix |
It is just not fair - AIX 6 TL6, AIX 7, WPAR Mgr for Versions WPARs, VIOS 2.2
Its just not fair that the week I am on holiday so much brilliant software is coming out AIX 6.1 TL06 AIX 7.1 first release Workload Partition Manager for Versioned WPARs (meaning running AIX 5.2) - a Systems Director Plug-in Virtual I/O Server 2.2 Don't forget that for AIX you should also install the first service pack that comes out at the same time. This sweeps up all the fixes between the Gold DVD cut and the actual availability date. The smart guys will be downloading the AIX and VIOS DVDs from ESS (see earlier AIXblog) to get it quickly.... [More]
Tags:  mgr vios 7 for tl6 6 versions wpars wpar 2.2 aix |