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DS8A00 DSCLI: allow -compressionThreshold values of 14% and below (Alerting required for usage values of 86% and above)

Why is this useful? Alerting for more critical usage values (usage above 85%) is important to be informed about high usage situation Who would benefit from it? every user of DS8A00 with FCM4. How should it work? Allow any percentage value for - co...
about 4 hours ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

use sort from rust-coreutils to speedup mmbackup/mmapplypolicy

For large filesystems mmbackup and mmapplypolicy spend long times with sorting data. This idea is about improving those times considerably. https://github.com/uutils/coreutils is a re-implementation of the GNU coreutils. The sort command is much q...
about 4 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Prevent attribute changes by non-root users

We are running a big filesystem that controls file access by (nfsv3) ACLs. The ACLs are carefully crafted to ensure the desired file accesses for the data. As ACLs are not directly visible via ls (there's only the tiny + character) users tend to m...
about 4 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Detailed information about a problematic inode

“When we encounter an issue caused by or impacting a specific file which leads to deadlock conditions in the file locking functionality that scale supports the Scale development is able to provide us with an inode value after analysis of gpfs.snap...
about 12 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Add observability and alerting for queue full conditions on IBM Flashsytem arrays

Problem statement. Pool response times reach up to 100ms but there is no insight as to the cause. IBM support were engaged and identified the cause to be queue full condition on the front-end per TS019735977.It is a frustration to know there is a ...
about 12 hours ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Storage Rule-COPY: hydrated tape copies directly on the Target pool by using copy storage rules

We want to make copy of our Primary Disk based Directory Container pool into Replication server but directly on tape (hydrated tape copies), so we can directly be able to restore the data using BA client at our DR location as well as no need to re...
about 20 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

ESS Management Switch monitoring feature request

We value the IBM turnkey appliance and support; however, we would like a way to monitor the IBM provided ESS management switches via ESS (GUI and/ore Alerting).
about 23 hours ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Please bring back show hosts by host ports in the hosts menu

Because its a pain having to view host properties then selecting the port definitions tab every time
3 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

expand the number of hosts that a nodeclass can have

Clients want to add more than 1k hosts to a nodeclass.
5 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Support for Azure Blob Storage Cold tier in TSM Server

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage offers three online access tiers: Hot, Cool, and Cold.According to current documentation and support statements, the IBM TSM Server (Tivoli Storage Manager) currently supports only the Hot and Cool tiers. From a techni...
5 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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