Active Systems Optimiser (ASO) will tune up your AIX system for you is some very specialized ways. As it checks it made an improvement and backs out if needed this can do no harm. See Nigel switch the features on then monitoring it so see what it is up to.
Note: I have retired from IBM but I am still interesting is supporting and helping nmon and njmon users. Plus questions on AIX 7 and Power10 servers. Please use [email protected] from now on.