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To check the running processes on an AIX system, you can use the ps command. Here’s an example:

This command will show a list of all the running processes and their status information. The output includes the following columns:

• UID: the user ID of the owner of the process.
• PID: the process ID of the process.
• PPID: the parent process ID of the process.
• C: the CPU utilization of the process.
• STIME: the start time of the process.
• TTY: the terminal associated with the process.
• TIME: the cumulative CPU time used by the process.
• CMD: the name of the command used to start the process.

There are many options available with the ps command on AIX, so you can customize the output to show only the information you need.