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Watch the AIX Reboot Gotchas, Part 2: Bootlist and Devices

In part 2 of this series, Anthony English covers a few of the surprises you can face when you reboot your AIX OS, including using the correct boot device, retaining device attributes, performance tuning settings, and partition profiles.

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  • Get a quick view of mksysb backups with lsmksysb
    May 14, 2013
    Article

    Get a Quick View of mksysb Backups with lsmksysb

    Get a sneak peak of the contents of an AIX operating system backup using the lsmksysb command....More
  • Hit the Pause Button in AIX Printing
    May 9, 2013
    Article

    How to Hit the Pause Button in AIX Printing

    When you use the AIX print subsystem, you can pause print queues and grab a copy of temporary print jobs, which makes it easy to view or edit print files....More
  • Tune Up Your Multipath Performance
    Apr. 24, 2013
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    Tune Up Your Multipath Performance

    Multipathing provides redundancy through multiple dedicated fiber channel adapter ports. If you're using this option, there are some tuning parameters you can tweak to improve your I/O performance and redundancy response times....More
  • Migrate Data with migratelp
    Apr. 12, 2013
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    Migrate Data with migratelp

    IBM Power Champion David Tansley demonstrates migratelp, a method you can use to migrate data....More
  • IBM powers digital delivery of the Masters
    Apr. 12, 2013
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    How IBM Works with Masters to Deliver an Immersive Digital Experience

    IBM uses POWER, AIX, Linux, and three data centers to help bring The Masters to golf fans around the world through a immersive digital experience....More
  • Access Control Lists for AIX
    Apr. 11, 2013
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    Access Control Lists for AIX

    IBM Power Champion David Tansley demonstrates how to set up, view, and use Access Control Lists (ACLs) for AIX....More
  • Korn shell "for loops"
    Apr. 5, 2013
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    Korn Shell "for loops"

    What do you do if your "for" loop contains hundreds of entries? According to Rob McNelly, it's easy to create a file with entries that come from output and use "cat" to display them....More
  • Mount Nested AIX File Systems
    Mar. 28, 2013
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    How to Mount Nested AIX File Systems

    David Tansley shows you how to mount and unmount nested AIX file systems with help from chfs and lsfs, as well as use mount groups to mount many file systems at a time....More
  • Use SMIT to Improve Your Scripting Knowledge
    Mar. 26, 2013
    Article

    Use SMIT to Improve Your Scripting Knowledge

    Use SMIT to learn which AIX commands are executed to complete certain tasks. Discover how those commands can be redirected to a different file, then used in your own scripts....More
  • Mar. 22, 2013
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    Shell History Editing

    IBM Power Systems Champion Rob McNelly demonstrates how to easy it is to edit your shell history in the korn shell....More
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