RE: Best Practice Question

Can anyone provide context for why "Can be saved: No" for /tmp is considered a best practice?

Is "Can be saved: Yes" the shipped default and, ergo, are most shops oblivious to the potential impact of this setting?

- Dan Bale

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2025 12:15 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Best Practice Question

DSPATR OBJ('/tmp') should show
Can be saved . . . . . . . . . . . . . : No

If not then
CHGATR OBJ('/tmp') ATR(*ALWSAV) VALUE(*NO)

Definitely "best practices".


On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM Rich Loeber <rich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just wondering if it would be considered a best practice to always
exclude the /TMP folder in the IFS for a regular backup of the system.
This folder is used by items of the OS and we had a customer where
SNDSMTPEMM failed when our product tried to send an email during their save.

Rich Loeber
Kisco Systems LLC

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