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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace IBM i
Categories IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers
Created by Guest
Created on May 29, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Add the attributes like the owner and creation date on the netserver ffile share so we know who created it and when it was created like IFS objects showing the owner and creation date

Like IFS and object attributes, it is useful because we need to know who created and when it was created.  Also, whatever the user creates the netserver file share, the user picks a name that might be acceptable or not acceptable. Also, it can be a security reason or vulnerability.   For instance, when the user creates a netserver file share 'donottouch', we need to ask the user what the reason is for and so forth.  Today, I have many netserver file shares but I have no idea who created and when it was created.  When I looked at the IFS object attributes (whatever in the path in the netserver file share) and asked the owner, he/she had no idea who created it.  So, why not do the same for the netserver file share attributes?  make sense?  

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Jun 3, 2025
    The development team believes that equivalent function to this request already exists. Share time stamps were added in IBM i 7.6 that include the creation date, last update date, and last access date for IBM i NetServer shares.

    A new VP-S audit record type was also added in IBM i 7.6 that records any changes to NetServer shares to the system audit record. That data includes the profile name of the user making the change as well as other useful information about the share. Generation of VP-S audit records can be enabled with the *NETBAS auditing level. See the IBM i documentation for more details (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=entries-vp-network-journal).

    You may also be interested to know that the sharing authority requirements have been tightened in IBM i 7.6. A user either needs to have *IOSYSCFG special authority or they need to own the shared object and have function usage authority to QIBM_QZLS_NETSVR_SHARE. Prior releases only required object ownership. The change in 7.6 gives system administrators more control over which users are allowed to create NetServer shares.

    -- IBM i NetServer development team
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