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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 14, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

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 maybe a good step into the right direction. 

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Feb 6, 2025
    Thank you for submitting, but the development team is denying the request. IBM does not intend to make any changes to the availability of the QDLS file system at this time.

    Administrators that want to prevent users from accessing the QLDS file system already have the ability to set permissions on the /QDLS directory to prevent or otherwise limit user access. If the problem is that users with elevated authority continue to use the file system after access restrictions are put in place, that becomes a matter for the user's business to resolve through education and managerial encouragement.
  • Guest
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    |     Dec 23, 2024

    Just curious, why not change the security on it so that it is inaccessible? What problem are you trying to solve?

    • Fellow coworker has elevated privileges and I'd really wish he'd stop using it and I'm trying to find a way to force him.

    • I'd like a business reason to convince my management to upgrade to a newer version of the document management software we're using so I'd like to be able to say QDLS is becoming unsupported?


  • Guest
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    |     Nov 14, 2024

    I think this is an excellent idea, something like a system value that removes the ability to access QDLS. 

    Cheers Brad
    Steve Bradshaw
    IBM Champion, Member of CEAC, TD or i-UG.co.uk and Friendly Techie at RowtonIT.com 

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