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IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers

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    Path case sensitive inside iASP

    To the best of my knowledge, the only case-sensitive paths in the IBM i Integrated File System are /QOPT and /QOpenSys. In a configuration where an independent ASP (iASP) named IASP01 is present, once the iASP is mounted it is exposed in the IFS u...
    12 days ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Functionality already exists

    Enable no-auditing of /tmp like QTEMP

    Please change audit code to not audit any activity in /tmp direcotry when system value QAUDLVL has option *NOQTEMP set - or by adding a new option *NOIFSTMP. As this directory is to be used for temporary files by design like objects in QTEMP this...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 8 Future consideration

    SMB 3.1.1 support needed in IBM i 7.4

    We have tested the communication between SMBv3 on IBMi and SMBv3.1.1 on Windows and it doesn't work.
    6 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 5 Future consideration

    Exit point QIBM_QPWFS_FILE_SERV should include the Netserver file share name

    This exit point currently provides a lot of data about file server access, but this one key piece of information is missing (the share name). During security remediation, it would be invaluable to capture the name of the share that is being used, ...
    12 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Future consideration

    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 autogenerate...
    3 months ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Submitted

    Add Inherit Rules to IFS journalling

    Today when you set up journalling for the IFS the STRJRN command allows you to filter the objects that are to be journalled, however this is a one off request and the inherit rules are not able to be set to allow future filtering of the objects jo...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 1 Future consideration

    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 ma...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

    Enhance the CPIAD09, CPIAD0B, and CPI3E34 messages to indicate whether the connection came in an a secure port or a non-secure port

    The subject messages are all very similar and are logged to the history log when new connections are made to the system. These messages are very useful to understand the workload for connections to the system. However, there is no ability to deter...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Future consideration

    Add IFS file encryption/decryption support

    Add OS support for transparent encryption/decryption of stream files in the IFS On the database side, IBM provided corresponding tooling when it introduced Db2 for i field procedures in IBM i 7.1. Field procedures allow Db2 data to be transparentl...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 8 Future consideration

    Determine CCSID depending on content of the file

    One of the big challenges when receiving text files via FTP etc from external sources is to determine what CCSID it is encoded in. By default 1252 or 819 is used but often it should be 1208 ( UTF-8 ) instead. Especially when it is XML-files. If th...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 12 Not under consideration

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