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This is a major issue because Azure only supports SMBv3, and CIFS shares from Azure are needed to protect/offsite things like Spectrum Protect database backups, and other files.
Also, many Windows servers, even prior to 2016, are disabling SMBv1.
AIX has SAMBA 4 in the yum repository, but no mount helper there.
The only CIFS mount helper is in the base OS, and it has not changed substantially in more than a decade.
This is a major customer sat issue and putting a multi-million dollar IBM migration at risk.
There are no future plans to provided new supported versions of SMB client support on AIX. A non-supported as-is version for SMB 2.0 is being explored as a future downloadable package.
IBM - Please let us know when CIFS Driver V2 will be available
Please provide an update/ETA on this RFE as customer is very interested in the status.
Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #72056 in product IBM AIX.