AIX Base Operating System Product Information

The AIX Base Operating System licensed program includes the AIX operating system, languages, device drivers, system management tools, utilities, and other packages as listed.

Package Names

Contains support for 64-bit applications on systems with hardware that supports 64-bit.

Contains accounting services that support or enhance the base operating system (BOS).

Contains commands, files, and libraries required to develop software applications.

Allows installation of a new version of AIX Version 4.3 to another disk while the operating system is still running.

Contains Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) LAN Emulation client support.

Contains those commands, links, and tools that have been marked for removal from the base operating system. These filesets should only be applied as needed since the information and commands they contain will not be available in future releases of AIX.

Contains the 7318 model P10 and S20 software support.

Contains privileged cryptographic algorithms that can be used with AIX IP Security.

Contains the Diagnostic Controller for the hardware diagnostics package.

Contains communication layer-2 data link controls that support the AIX Generic Data Link Control (GDLC) interface for wide area and local area networks.

Provides functions that allow users to search HTML documents that are registered with the search service.

Contains DOS file and disk utilities for handling DOS diskettes.

Contains games, such as fish and hangman.

Converts data from one code set designation to another code set that might be used to represent data in a given locale.

Contains a full-screen text editor that supports viewing, entering, and revising text at any location in the editor window.

Contains support for applications to run using the cultural conventions of a specific language and territory. These conventions include date and time formatting, collation order, monetary and numeric formatting, language for messages, and character classification. Where applicable, additional software such as input methods and fonts, which is required to display and process characters of a specific language, is also included.

Contains the learn utility and database that supports or enhances the base operating system.

Contains commands to create, distribute, receive, view, process, and store mail messages.

Provides network support for the operating system. Includes Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), Network File System (NFS), Network Information Services (NIS), UNIX-to-UNIX Copy (UUCP), and Asynchronous Terminal Emulator (ATE).

Provides a means of accessing files and applications on AIX Version 4.1 systems from a personal computer using a connection over a network.

Contains two filesets for identifying and diagnosing performance problems.

Controls electric power consumption features such as system standby, device idle, suspend, and hibernation on models that support these features.

Provides customers access to IBMLink from the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT). Customers can connect to this remote customer support system using TCP/IP leased lines, Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) dial-up lines, or SNA.

Contains the set of commands needed to start, install, and run AIX.

Contains a toolkit for creating object-oriented class libraries in C or C++.

Contains system management functions related to installation, system backup, error logging, and trace.

Contains description files, used by curses libraries, for various terminals.

Contains support enhancing concurrent IPL of machines that are connected to a common 7135 RAID Array device.

Contains services for formatting and printing documents.