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    implement an ON/OFF function to force syncvg after takeover after a node failure occurs.

    Implement an ON/OFF function to force syncvg after takeover after a node failure occurs. When a node failure occurs on the service machine and the shared disk created by AIX LVM mirror is taken over to the standby machine, syncvg is forced using t...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

    Recommend to enhance iASP HA solution and user prompting to improve user experience

    Recommend to enhance iASP solution and user prompting to improve user experience
    25 days ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

    SMB 3.1.1 support needed in IBM i 7.4

    We have tested the communication between SMBv3 on IBMi and SMBv3.1.1 on Windows and it doesn't work.
    5 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 5 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 3 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 8 Future consideration

    Exit point QIBM_QPWFS_FILE_SERV should include the Netserver file share name

    This exit point currently provides a lot of data about file server access, but this one key piece of information is missing (the share name). During security remediation, it would be invaluable to capture the name of the share that is being used, ...
    10 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration

    netserver substitution variabiles in share declaration or exit program for dynamic mapping

    In many system is possible and common to connect to a logical share that then get mapped do different physical directories according to substitution variable in the share declaration. for example accessing via SMB \\server\home maps to the connect...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 0 Submitted

    Add feature to be able to add mount options to NFS cross mounts

    For some our NFS cross mounted filesystems we need to be able to add additional NFS mount options. This is a requirement triggered by SAP. It also should be added to the SAP Smart Assist tools.
    almost 3 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

    Add options to use different shared Filesystems for SAP Smart Assist

    When using PHA SAP Smart Assist it is required to use NFS 4.It would be very helpful to have an option to use NFS 3 or ISS (GPFS) instead.
    over 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

    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...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Future consideration

    Add an option to prevent QDLS from being used

    IBM is recommending to stop using QDLS since 2010. Symmetric Multi Processing and using QDLS are also not a good combination. Sun setting QDLS is maybe a bridge to far, but giving the option to prevent QDLS from being mounted during the IPL, is ma...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

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