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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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mmdsh quiet mode

mmdsh currently prints ssh banner messages in the output which is overlapping with the actual cmd output, it will be nice if mmdsh internally uses a quiet mode equalent to ssh -q to ignore the banner messages in the mmdsh cmd output.
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Samba "hide unreadable = root_only" to boost performance

In most cases we need Samba's "hide unreadable" only on root directory of an smb export. A switch to enable "hide unreadable" only for the export dir's content and not for the whole subtree should significantly improve performance.
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Check pool usage in units of "fileset"

My client company is a customer who uses "fileset" in a wide variety.The customer is using "ess3200" and "ess5000" divided into "system pool" and "data1 pool".The customer has transferred the data from "system pool" in "fileset" to "data1 pool".Ho...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Support for ROCKY Linux

Client is requesting ROCKY Linux support for their client nodes.
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Scale GUI Statistics Save, Generate report, and Forward Selections

Provide the ability in the Scale GUI Statistics monitoring page to save custom settings for easy re-use and ability to forward these selections to the Dashboard page for use in a monitoring widget. There are pre-set statistics monitoring selection...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Allow group owners to also query filesets

We have user filesets (independent) that are owned by root but the group is actually the user. Unfortunately Spectrum Scale seems not to take group ownership into account and only the owner can query the fileset (mmlsfileset) which seems overly re...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

When tape data is encrypted, but Spectrum Scale recall cache and Stub files are not, how do we encrypt those without recalling the data off tape?

Using both Storage Archive and Storage Scale system (ESS) we need to be able to encrypt the data on ESS without impacting or recalling the tape data (Which is already encryped via the TS4500 Library). The client will be migratiing from Gen2 ESS to...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Add SAML support

At the present time, SAML does not seems to be supported, only LDAP.
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

NFS Ganesha server to support over 4TB user quota report.

User quota below 4TB report currect :$ quota -s Disk quotas for user ibm (uid 1000): Filesystem space quota limit grace files quota limit grace 10.155.7.115:/gpfs/gpfs0/ibm 18414M 4000G 0K 33 0 0 User quota over 4TB report this capacity which is...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Protocols: Support a PAM configuration supporting winbindd and Active Directory, not local accounts only, on ces nodes.

Currently protocol nodes using Active Directory authentication don't support accounts from AD when you connect with ssh. The needed pam_winbind.so pam module is not provided by scale/protocols. Only local accounts work. Maintaining local admin acc...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration