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My ideas: IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers

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Add Inherit Rules to IFS journalling

Today when you set up journalling for the IFS the STRJRN command allows you to filter the objects that are to be journalled, however this is a one off request and the inherit rules are not able to be set to allow future filtering of the objects jo...
3 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Future consideration

QSHELL support CCSID 1377

Confirm with Lab team, based on link below, CCSID 1377 is not supported: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=qshell-national-language-support-nls-considerations I test CCSID 935 1388 937, all works, just like above link describe. However, 1377...
5 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Future consideration

Improve performance of IBM i IFS File Access for Large Files

When accessing large, multimegabyte IFS files (beyond 16MB) there is a noticable lag in response times by some interfaces, such as HLL languages. The C read() function with buffer that is a C++ vector or dynamically allocated TS memory seems to ta...
12 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration

Problem to detect infected files or AR attack if mount from Unix is used

Dear center /support 1.The usage capabilities of NFS are similar to those of shared folders. Nevertheless, the QIBM_QPWFS_FILE_SERV exit point is not alerted by operations made in NFS. This opens a security gap as our Anti-Ransomware is based on t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration

Extend WRKJOB (or new SQL service) to show open descriptors of a job

When analyzing issues some times I must also check how many descriptors a job has in use. In case of f_type VNODE I will also check the IFS path. To get these information I must execute the following statement: CALL PGM(QP0FPTOS) PARM('*DUMPLFS' &...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration

Qshell df command is "slow" on detect disk space changes

df command under qshell shows a NOT updated percentage of used disk space if the disk space grows fast of get lower . It looks that the df commands "reads" a value that is updated every xx minutes ( maybe 20-30 mins) and it's NOT the current used ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Future consideration

Enable no-auditing of /tmp like QTEMP

Please change audit code to not audit any activity in /tmp direcotry when system value QAUDLVL has option *NOQTEMP set - or by adding a new option *NOIFSTMP. As this directory is to be used for temporary files by design like objects in QTEMP this...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 8 Future consideration

Allow to mount NFS without a ping response

There are some NFS services (cloud storage gateways, cloud NFS services, etc) that block echo icmp response, so you won't receive an answer from ping. This change could allow to work with more cloud services
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 6 Future consideration

Save timestamp captured for stream files

I would like to understand what IFS objects are NOT backed up on a regular basis. I can tell that easily with QSYS objects because the save timestamp has always been captured at the object level. For stream files, no save timestamp exists. Not eve...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration

QZBSSL exit program, there is no support for setting "client authentication required" for the host servers, in Digital Certif

We are receiving the following error while on DCM while changing the Client authentication required to Yes for Database server application. Error Code 4022. An Error occurred while processing applications Application type - ServerApplication ID- Q...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration