IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Support NFSv4.2 server-side COPY offload in IBM Storage Scale CES NFS

    IBM Storage Scale CES NFS currently returns NFS4ERR_NOTSUPP when an NFSv4.2 client issues the COPY operation. IBM support has confirmed that this operation is not currently supported. We request support for the NFSv4.2 server-side COPY operation b...
    3 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    Native Path/Pattern Exclusion for Dynamic Container Filesystems in BA Client

    Modern Linux server environments running container orchestrators (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Podman) dynamically generate and tear down ephemeral virtual filesystems (e.g., overlay2, fuse-overlayfs, tmpfs) under predictable runtime directories...
    5 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    IBM Storage Scale GUI emails notifications

    Dear team, by a customer we have 12 IBM Storage scale subsystem 5149-F48 with 9 enclosures 5149-091, 10 5149-23E node and 1 5149-23E management node. On the management node we have installed the IBM Storage Scale GUI that have several possibility....
    6 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration
    210 VOTE

    mmrestorefs into REST API.

    The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

    CES S3 Support for "Atomic Conditional Write" (compareAndSet)

    The current CES S3 protocol does not support an S3 compareAndSet operation. This is a requirement for attaching ElasticStack to the CES S3 protocol nodes. Attachment of ElasticStack to IBM Storage Scale using CES S3 would enable ElasticStack to st...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    make the ba-client scan a _single filesystem_ for new/changed/deleted files/dirs via parallel threads

    question: when will the ba-client be able to search through a _single filesystem_ for new/changed/deleted files/dirs via parallel threads? this feature is standard among most of ba-clients competitors and customers are asking for this frequently.
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Add monitoring for the "phy error counters" that are currently displayed in the tssastools log, and which can only be verified via a snap

    We've encountered several issues related to disk problems and crashes. After opening several cases, in one of them (TS022401811) , we have been notified about a significant increase in these counters. This problem wasn't being reported anywhere by...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    Prevend db2 abort within multiple backup streams

    If an error/abort occurs on one of the tape drives during a 6-stream db2 backup to tape, the entire backup is aborted by the db2. Please change the error behavior for db2 backups to resume with the remaining sessions to finish the backup job succe...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    adjust installation scripts to work with DNF and the new path for the ln binary

    For a while now (since Red Hat 7?) DNF has been the preferred way to install and manage packages on Red Hat systems. The TSM client documents explicitly say RPM should be used. With Red Hat 10 the path to the file link command (ln) changed and DNF...
    9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3

    REST API call for the "mmexpelnode -l" command

    Hello. I suggest creating a REST API call equivalent to the "mmexpelnode -l" command. We monitor the environment via the REST API, and it would be useful to monitor the nodes that have been expelled from the cluster to trigger specific alerts for ...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

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