IBM PS/2 releases

* AIX PS/2 v1.3, October 1992 ** Withdrawn from sale in US, March 1995 ** Patches supporting IBM ThinkPad 750C family of notebook computers, 1994 ** Patches supporting non PS/2 hardware and systems, 1993 * AIX PS/2 v1.2.1, May 1991 * AIX PS/2 v1.2, March 1990 * AIX PS/2 v1.1, March 1989

IBM RT releases

* AIX RT v2.2.1, March 1991 * AIX RT v2.2, March 1990 * AIX RT v2.1, March 1989 ** X-Windows included on installation media * AIX RT v1.1, 1986 * AIX RT v1.0, 1985

User interfaces

The default shell was Bourne shell up to AIX version 3, but was changed to KornShell (ksh88) in version 4 for XPG4 and POSIX compliance.

Graphical

The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is AIX's default graphical user interface. As part of Linux Affinity and the free AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications (ATLA), open-source KDE Plasma Workspaces and GNOME desktop are also available.

System Management Interface Tool

IBM AIX SMIT, SMIT is the System Management Interface Tool for AIX. It allows a user to navigate a menu hierarchy of commands, rather than using the command line. Invocation is typically achieved with the command smit. Experienced system administrators make use of the F6 function key which generates the command line that SMIT will invoke to complete it. SMIT also generates a log of commands that are performed in the smit.script file. The smit.script file automatically records the commands with the command flags and parameters used. The smit.script file can be used as an executable shell script to rerun system configuration tasks. SMIT also creates the smit.log file, which contains additional detailed information that can be used by programmers in extending the SMIT system. smit and smitty refer to the same program, though smitty invokes the text-based version, while smit will invoke an X Window System based interface if possible; however, if smit determines that X Window System capabilities are not present, it will present the text-based version instead of failing. Determination of X Window System capabilities is typically performed by checking for the existence of the DISPLAY variable.

Database

Object Data Manager (ODM) is a database of system information integrated into AIX, analogous to the Windows registry, registry in Microsoft Windows. A good understanding of the ODM is essential for managing AIX systems. Data managed in ODM is stored and maintained as Object (computer science), objects with associated Attribute (computing), attributes. Interaction with ODM is possible via application programming interface (API) Library (computing), library for programs, and command-line utilities such as ''odmshow'', ''odmget'', ''odmadd'', ''odmchange'' and ''odmdelete'' for shell scripts and users. System Management Interface Tool, SMIT and its associated AIX commands can also be used to query and modify information in the ODM. ODM is stored on disk using Berkeley DB files. Example of information stored in the ODM database are: *Computer network, Network configuration *Logical volume management configuration *Installed software information *Information for logical devices or software drivers *List of all AIX supported devices *Physical hardware devices installed and their configuration *Menus, screens and commands that SMIT uses

References

External links

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