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Status Submitted
Workspace IBM i
Categories Core OS
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 30, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

create a temp per process ifs dir QTEMP like in use

For security and auto cleanup, would be useful to have a particular named directory in IFS called for example /QTEMP or /jobtmp etc. that is local to the process (and PASE process) and behaves just like the QTEMP library.

Or something autogenerated, or istantiated upon API call that will give a unique dir id.

When a process dies, the whole content vanishes.

This virtual dir then you can - in future - use it to support to mount "virtual remote" filesystems, like the now ubiquitous SFTP. Want to support SFTP in a super efficient way and revolutionary way? Just mount the remote server under /QTEMP/serverid and then let RPG use regular POSIX calls or the new SQL services, it is a "per process" mount view. Want to support S3 storage? same, if it has a filesystem like view and structure.

The uses are numerous.

And really, sometimes, after months, the current /tmp can become a real mess, lots of leftovers, a lot of security problem possibilities also due to lot of logs left there...

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Nov 20, 2025

    This would deviate from generally accepted standards for *nix environments.

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