What's new in AIX 7.1

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The following information is a summary of the updates that are made to the AIX 7.1 documentation:

• Updated the description of the -z flag in the sort command to include the buffer size value.
• Updated the IBM Electronic Service Agent information. For more information, see the What's new section in the corresponding section.

• Added information about the -C flag in the mksysb and alt_disk_mksysb commands.

The following information is a summary of the updates that are made to the AIX 7.1 documentation:

• Created and updated the following topics and commands:
  • Added information about flash devices in the Caching storage data topic.
  • Removed the OpenGL 1.2 Reference Manual topic from the IBM Knowledge Center.
  • Added information about installing IBM DB2 before installing the IBM Directory Server in the Configuring the IBM Directory (LDAP) to store System V print information topic.
  • Updated information about the nominal processor speed for the system in the pmcycles command.
  • Updated information about setting up a system as an LDAP security information server in the following topics.
    • Setting up an IBM Security Directory Server
    • Setting up an LDAP client
    • Setting up SSL on the LDAP client
    • Accounts created by security components
    • LDAP user management