New Features

New Features

• The AIX operating system provides quirks to support various third-party USB mass storage devices. For more information, see the AIX USB device quirks and the USB device support topics.
• The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) that implements a domain name server for the AIX operating system, is upgraded from version 9.4.1 to 9.16.26. BIND version 9.16.26 is shipped in both Web download and base operating system for AIX 7.3.1 release. For more information, see the AIX Release Notes® and the following topics: named Daemon, named9 daemon, named-checkconf command, named-checkzone, named-compilezone command, rndc-confgen command, ddns-confgen, tsig-keygen command, dig command, host9 command, nslookup command, dnssec-cds command, dnssec-dsfromkey command, dnssec-importkey command, dnssec-keygen command, dnssec-revoke command, dnssec-settime command, dnssec-signzone command, dnssec-verify command, dnssec-checkds command, dnssec-coverage command, dnssec-keymgr command, nsupdate command, rndc command.
• Added information about the -e flag in the ibv_devinfo command topic. The -e flag prints the extended group ID (GID) tables of the RDMA devices.
• Added information about the -q flag in the ofedctrl command topic. The -q flag indicates whether the kernel extension is loaded or not.
• Added information about the OFED configuration file.
• Updated the following topics with information about the Power10 processors-based servers:
• IBM® AIX Dynamic System Optimizer
• Planning for the IBM AIX Dynamic System Optimizer
• Added the lcpuid_to_bindid and bindid_to_lcpuid subroutines under Global interfaces in Perfstat API Programming. It returns the bind CPU ID and the logical CPU ID.
• Added information about Using fully qualified domain name (FQDN) or user@FQDN with pre-shared key for IKEV2.
• Added information about Configuring endpoints that are behind the NAT device under Network address translation.
• Updated information about Encrypted physical volumes.
• Added information about Creating shared memory objects with 1TB segment size. Shared memory object improves performance of processes by using large shared memory regions.
• Updated the Live Update restrictions topic.
• The network file system (NFS) client is enhanced to support file sizes that are greater than 16 TB. The current tested and supported maximum file size is 256 TB.