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Efficient Patching Process: Users have noted IBM AIX's capability to apply new patches seamlessly, eliminating the need for system restarts and enhancing operational efficiency significantly. This feature allows businesses to maintain continuous operations without disruptions, leading to increased productivity and cost savings.

Innovative Features: Customers appreciate IBM AIX for pioneering the journaling file system and offering advanced software features, showcasing its innovative nature and technological advancements in the industry. The introduction of these cutting-edge technologies sets IBM AIX apart from other operating systems, providing users with enhanced performance and functionality.

Stability and Reliability: Reviewers consistently praise IBM AIX for its exceptional stability, with systems running continuously without necessitating reboots, underscoring the high reliability and robustness of this operating system. The reliable performance of IBM AIX instills confidence in users, allowing them to focus on their tasks without worrying about system failures or downtime.

Limited GUI Features: Some users have noted that IBM AIX lacks a GUI feature by default, which may pose challenges for those accustomed to graphical interfaces. This absence of a graphical interface can make certain tasks less intuitive and more command-line dependent, potentially leading to a steeper learning curve for some users.

High Cost: Users perceive IBM AIX as expensive compared to its competitors, potentially making it less cost-effective for some organizations. The higher upfront costs associated with IBM AIX may deter smaller businesses or those operating on tight budgets from adopting the platform, impacting its accessibility in the market.

Compatibility Issues with Linux: Several users have expressed difficulties in running open-source Linux utilities on AIX without a toolbox installation, highlighting compatibility concerns between the two operating systems. This lack of seamless integration between Linux utilities and AIX could hinder workflow efficiency for users who frequently switch between the two environments, requiring additional time and effort to ensure software compatibility.

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We use IBM AIX in own our organization and support many customers running AIX on our cloud environment with IBM POWER servers. 

IBM AIX gives us a highly scalable, robust and secure operating environment for business critical software, like Oracle, DB2 and SAP. 

The IBM AIX operating system is designed as an enterprise operating system and has excellent RAS features (for reliability, availability and stability). Many settings can be done on-the-fly without requiring a reboot, and Live Kernel Update is available for fixes/updates that would otherwise require a reboot. 

IBM AIX is also very secure, requiring much less fixes for security vulnerabilities compared to other operating systems. And features like secure-by-default, role-based access control, file permission manager, trusted execution and secure boot enhance security. It also integrates well with tools like IBM PowerSC to tighten security even further. 

AIX needs to run on IBM POWER hardware, which is in a class of its own as far as RAS and performance are concerned. If you look at TCO, the combination of AIX, POWER system(s) and an application often produce a better performing combination at a lower cost, compared to many alternatives.

For an operating system based on Unix AIX is very user-friendly. In addition to the manual pages, it also includes SMIT (a system management interface tool) both graphically and text-based, that helps administrators execute complex commands. SMIT logs all AIX commands (and their output) to logfiles, so you can review (and duplicate yourself) what it executed 'under the covers'.
AIX has high (or sometimes dynamic) limits on lots of settings. Of course you can tune a lot of variables that determine how the operating system acts, but the defaults have evolved over decades and are generally great. A lot of settings are by default based e.g. on the amount of memory and scale with the system.
In combination with IBM POWER hardware and PowerVM (built in to the hardware of every modern POWER system) AIX can make full use of dynamic features like adding (and removing) additional processing capacity, memory, SAN-based disks etc. to an AIX virtual machine (LPAR) on the fly.
AIX has excellent built-in security, where a secure-by-default installation skips installation of software components notorious for causing security issues, disables services that are normally considered unsafe (like plain ftp) etc. File permission manager allows you to select wanted degrees of security (based on profiles provided or obtained from other sources) to tighten security. Trusted Execution allows you to restrict execution only to programs that haven't been modified - the OS refuses to run (unauthorized) modified programs. Secure Boot makes sure the software used to start the system, including AIX itself is not tampered with.

I would like Live Kernel Update not to be dependent on a connection to the HMC.
I would like IBM to provide more "thirdp arty" software in installp format (AIX-native install packages) instead of relying on RPM packages to be installed with rpm, yum or dnf.

We have some 300 partitions running on POWER, most of which are running AIX. Applications or application administrators often require a reboot, but we have over 20 virtual machines running AIX that have been up for over 1000 days (maximum being 1844 days = 5+ years).
We are running on 30+ POWER systems and had zero unplanned downtime in the last two years.
In the last 12 months IBM AIX only had two important fixes that required a reboot.

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We use AIX as the preferred UNIX solution for our database servers, backup servers, and application servers.

Logical volume manager.
Stability
Linux compatibility.

Easier VIO management.
Better integration with rpm/yum/dnf.
Ability to change a filesystem to INLINE log.

Logical volume manager.
Stability
Standard management (has barely changed commands over the years).

Cannot tell about prices compared to other products.
You get great discounts if using at IBM for it's customers
i am not involved in the purchasing.

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In my organization, most of the databases and critical applications are running on IBM AIX due to numerous reasons like error handling. One of its most important features helps a lot with downtime, as well as the quick allocation of necessary resources and deallocation in case of release.

Centralized management
Easy to patch with an alternative disk
Easy to analyze errors

An opensource file set customization should be made
Yum creation should allow for checking updates on a regular basis
Snapshot options to add by default for the profile itself

Stability
Optimal performance
Error fixture with easy commands

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We use AIX to run our mission critical apps.

AIX is very stable, We have had systems running for years without rebooting
AIX is secure
AIX is easy to manage

There is no real GUI interface which some people could see as a drawback
AIX can be expensive

The overall availability of the applications is a positive

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