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Fileset Quota Exceeded — Prefetch Requests Stuck Indefinitely

Summary: Prevent prefetch operations from hanging when quota is exceeded. Description: When a fileset quota is exceeded: Prefetch requests neither fail nor retry Requests remain stuck indefinitely, requiring manual intervention This leads to block...
9 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Is a defect

Fileset Quota Exceeded — Inconsistent Read Behavior Across Access Paths

Summary: Ensure consistent error handling for quota-exceeded reads across POSIX and HDFS access. Description: When a fileset quota is exceeded, read behavior differs depending on the access path: POSIX (GPFS path): Correctly returns "disk quota ex...
9 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Is a defect

VM recommission is not getting captured in actlog

Adding VM recommission details to the IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM) activity log provides significant benefits, primarily for auditing, troubleshooting, and operational visibility.
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Is a defect

Provides a way to change the instance name, which is visible on the new Carbon-based UI.

An instance name is assigned when it is created and deployed. While it was not visible on the classic UI, it is clearly visible on the new Carbon-based UI which would surprises most customers; most customers would not remember they had chosen the ...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Is a defect

Users with the “Monitor” role should also be able to change their own password using RoE

Since firmware version 1.10, it has been possible to change a user's password via a RoE endpoint. According to the documentation, every user should be able to change their own password. However, according to the support team, this is not available...
11 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Is a defect

DS8K - Copy Services - Mirroring Path GUI improvement

Currently in the Copy Services menu the 'mirroring path' reports the current secondary site with a wrong status. As visible in the attached screen print (visible here: https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DS80-I-270), only the current prim...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 Is a defect

An option to edit the autorefresh timer of the FlashSystem GUI

The new FlashSystem GUI has a autorefresh function that is not editable.So if you are looking at the Volumes screen for example after a few minutes the screen refreshes and you are back at the top even though you selected a volume in the middle of...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Is a defect

Implement certificate validation

Currently certificates are not validated. If a corrupted/defect certificate is uploaded, the library just accept it, and the gui will be broken/not accessible any more. The only way to fix this is to directly access the gui via the panel on your (...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Is a defect

CES NFS - recover failed NFS node (marked with F flag) without reboot

Hi We had NFS Ganesha node that failed - but we did not able to recover it , only reboot solve it. Sysmon attempted to remove the F flag three times, but all attempts to acquire the lock failed.As a result, the node remained in a failed state desp...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Is a defect

Disable Host Degraded for Direct-Attached Hosts

This client has multiple distribution centers with small FS5x00s that are directly attached to a few ESX servers. The site is too small to justify SAN switches, and direct-attach is supported with NPIV enabled on 8.6+ code. In our configuration, e...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Is a defect

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