Book description
This IBM® Redbooks® publication focuses on the enhancements to IBM AIX® Version 7.1 Standard Edition. It is intended to help system administrators, developers, and users understand these enhancements and evaluate potential benefits in their own environments.
AIX Version 7.1 introduces many new features, including:
- Domain Role Based Access Control
- Workload Partition enhancements
- Topas performance tool enhancements
- Terabyte segment support
- Cluster Aware AIX functionality
AIX Version 7.1 offers many other new enhancements,
and you can explore them all in this publication.
For clients who are not familiar with the enhancements of AIX
through Version 5.3, a companion publication, AIX Version 6.1
Differences Guide, SG24-7559, is available.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Figures
- Tables
- Notices
- Preface
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Chapter 1. Application development and debugging
- 1.1 AIX binary compatibility
- 1.2 Improved performance using 1 TB segments
- 1.3 Kernel sockets application programming interface
- 1.4 UNIX08 standard conformance
- 1.5 AIX assembler enhancements
- 1.6 Malloc debug fill
- 1.7 proc_getattr and proc_setattr enhancements
- 1.8 Disabled read write locks
- 1.9 DBX enhancements
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1.10 ProbeVue enhancements
- 1.10.1 User function probe manager for Fortran
- 1.10.2 User function exit probes
- 1.10.3 Module name support in user probes
- 1.10.4 ProbeVue support for pre-compiled C++ header files
- 1.10.5 Associative array data type
- 1.10.6 Built-in variables for process- and thread-related information
- 1.10.7 Interval probes for profiling programs
- Chapter 2. File systems and storage
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Chapter 3. Workload Partitions and resource management
- 3.1 Trusted kernel extension loading and configuration
- 3.2 WPAR list of features
- 3.3 Versioned Workload Partitions (VWPAR)
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3.4 Device support in WPAR
- 3.4.1 Global device listing used as example
- 3.4.2 Device command listing in an AIX 7.1 WPAR
- 3.4.3 Dynamically adding a Fibre Channel adapter to a system WPAR
- 3.4.4 Removing of the Fibre Channel adapter from Global
- 3.4.5 Reboot of LPAR keeps Fibre Channel allocation
- 3.4.6 Disk attached to Fibre Channel adapter
- 3.4.7 Startwpar error if adapter is busy on Global
- 3.4.8 Startwpar with a Fibre Channel adapter defined
- 3.4.9 Disk commands in the WPAR
- 3.4.10 Access to the Fibre Channel attached disks from the Global
- 3.4.11 Support of Fibre Channel devices in the mkwpar command
- 3.4.12 Config file created for the rootvg system WPAR
- 3.4.13 Removing an FC-attached disk in a running system WPAR
- 3.4.14 Mobility considerations
- 3.4.15 Debugging log
- 3.5 WPAR RAS enhancements
- 3.6 WPAR migration to AIX Version 7.1
- Chapter 4. Continuous availability
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Chapter 5. System management
- 5.1 Processor interrupt disablement
- 5.2 Distributed System Management
- 5.3 AIX system configuration structure expansion
- 5.4 AIX Runtime Expert
- 5.5 Removal of CSM
- 5.6 Removal of IBM Text-to-Speech
- 5.7 AIX device renaming
- 5.8 1024 Hardware thread enablement
- 5.9 Kernel memory pinning
- 5.10 ksh93 enhancements
- 5.11 DWARF
- 5.12 AIX Event Infrastructure
- 5.13 Olson time zone support in libc
- 5.14 Withdrawal of the Web-based System Manager
- Chapter 6. Performance management
- Chapter 7. Networking
- Chapter 8. Security, autentication, and authorization
- Chapter 9. Installation, backup, and recovery
- Chapter 10. National language support
- Chapter 11. Hardware and graphics support
- Related publications
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: IBM AIX Version 7.1 Differences Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2010
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 9780738435008
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