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 HYPERLINK /2007/12/aix-pocket-survival-guide.html AIX pocket Survival guide AIX Admin 101PMR - Problem Management Record. PTF - Program Temporary Fix eg UnnnnnnAPAR - Authorized Program Analysis Report, specific release of PTF. eg IYnnnnn, IXnnnnnML - Maintenance Level, grouping of APAR. eg 5300-04 is ML 4SP - Service Pack (starting aix 5.3 ML 3) eg 5300-03-01 is SP 1 on ML3TL - Fileset - group of files, eg bos.adt.libmVRMF - Version, Release, Modification/Maintenance level, and Fix. eg 0 smitA lot of the sys admin task in AIX can be done thru smit (or smitty for TUI version). It can accept a parameter to get to a specific menu section right away. Here are some example:smit mktcpip # configure network parameterssmit chfs # change file system, eg grow/extend it.smit lsprt # list printers (dont list all, may need to go thru long menu)smit installp # Add new softwaresmit update # add patchessmit update_all # automatic add patches to existing sw, no complain if patch is not relevantsmitty fastpath:Action Prefix Device Abbreviation (add) mk (printer) prt(change) ch (tty) tty(list) ls (pty) pty(remove) rm (disk) dsk(cdrom) cdr(diskette) dskt(tape) tpe(adapter) adplangKeystrokes:F3 or ESC, 3 Cancel, go backF4 or ESC, 4 Provide list of items to choose fromF6 or ESC, 6 Show command that smit will actually runF10 or ESC, 10 Exit smittyLinux AffinityAIX is affectionally known as It Aint uniX. With version 5L that added Linux Affinity, it maybe called Aint It linuX?The linux toolkit does add lot of open source utilities for AIX, it even provides an rpm package manager to manipulate these open source tools. However, it is stuck in the past, circa 2002, and so many of the newer Linux updates are not available. For example, there is no rpmbuild but use the old rpm --recompile. There is no automatic patch to update the source codes from Source RPM. These deficiencies makes development in AIX extremely painful. AIX Idiosync