by Chris Maxcer -- 2/22/2012 7:00 PM
IBM released AIX 5.3 back in 2004, and in April of this year, eight years later, AIX 5.3 will no longer be available with standard IBM support. For those customers who just can’t make the leap to AIX 6 or 7, IBM is offering some relief in the form of a three-year service extension, with minimum purchases of 90 days or six months, depending on the country.
by Anthony English -- 2/13/2012 2:21 PM
One way of leveraging the shell is to run a subshell. That's simply getting a parent process to kick off a child process, wait for the result and do something with it. This tip gives you three examples which I've found handy on the command line. You can probably think of many others.
by Chris Maxcer -- 2/8/2012 7:39 PM
For a peek inside IBM’s thinking around how the company rolls out AIX fixes like Technology Levels and Service Packs, Jay Kruemcke, AIX product manager at IBM for Power Systems, posted an explanation on his The secret product manager blog site.
Kruemcke says he’s been getting a few questions about the fix and update process, such as, “Why does a new Service Pack come out at the same time as a new Technology Level?”
by Anthony English -- 2/6/2012 7:01 PM
If you're wondering what all the “Big Data” buzz is all about, you have to read IBM’s Big Data FlashBook. It's a great explanation about cost-effective solutions to the three Vs that are the characteristics of big data: volume, variety, and velocity.
by Mel Beckman -- 1/30/2012 7:18 PM
AIX has more than the usual suite of performance monitoring tools. You'll find common Unix tools, such as fuser, ps, sar, tcpdump, and the like, as well as many AIX-unique utilities. Here is a rough guide to the tools you should keep near to hand when trouble requires shooting.