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    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 3 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration

    In powerVM,the transmit speed of the virtual ethernet adapter is too low ,which is usting the 10GB physical adapter

    Dear IBM， we encounter a performance issue in VIOS and VIOC.we found we have nothing to do to improve the virtual network adapter transmit speed,based on the 10GB physical adapter.BUT in our datacenter ,there is 140+ 780 &880 facing the same i...
    about 6 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    VIOS 3.1 VIOC iSCSI rootvg and datavg

    Following a request from a customer about VIOS 3.1 and iSCSI support.https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/9223-22H/p9hb1/p9hb1_vios_concepts_iscsi.htmThis webpage is confusing when "limitations" paragraph is read:--Currently, the iSCSI disk...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    chdef should be able to set queue_depth defaults for iscsi non-mpio disks.

    We use ISCSI disks and do not have multi path storage available to us, so we would need to set the queue_depth for all newly created iscsi disks. However, we have to use chdev to accomplish this manually for each disk instead of just setting the d...
    7 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Create NetServer commands

    The core O/S lacks decent command support for NetServer. There is an alternative solution in QUSRTOOLS (NETSRVCMD library) but I think this should be implemented in the core O/S. With the new ACS defining shares is not possible and in the old prod...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 5 Not under consideration

    updateios failure during window closure

    You can reach out Deepak Menezes(deepakme@in.ibm.com) .This is with respect to issue we hit on case TS008403859Was installing Fix Pack 3.1.2.10 on top of his system 3.1.1.25 .During the installation the Putty session disconnected due to VPN discon...
    almost 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Planned for future release

    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 3 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration

    CPYTOSTMF needs CHGDATE parameter like CPYSRCF ... SRCCHGDATE()

    When using CPYTOSTMF, e.g. to copy source members from a source physical file to the IFS, for example, to populate git or some other source code version control repository, CPYTOSTMF always assigns the current date/time to the *STMF created. We wa...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 6 Not under consideration

    NFS v4 support for WRKIMGCLGE *DEV

    Currently, on V7Rx, it is not possible to mount an NFS remote directory (.iso or.img) on an remote NFS optical drive, if the NFS server is in v4. Only previous versions of this protocol are supported. The main disadvantage of these versions is tha...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Not under consideration

    Enhance VIOS "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images" --- to mirror VMware ESXi functionality for "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images"

    Enhance VIOS "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images" --- to mirror VMware ESXi functionality for "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images" #####################################mkrep -sp rootvg -size 20Gls -l /fix/AIX_v7.2_Base_Install_DVD_1_of_2_TL_7200-01-01.1...
    over 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Not under consideration

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