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mmputacl recursive option enhancement request

Do you have any suggestions how we can do a recursive ACL change efficiently using mmputacl? For directory trees that include millions of files, running mmputacl on each file or directory using a file list generated by, let's say, the find command...
1 day ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Under review

Make "Hold service state" persist across power cycles.

Currently, at a remote location, there is no way to make a FlashSystem stay offline across power cycles. There are cases where power maintenance activities take place, and it is expected that power may go up & down multiple times. Having a Fla...
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add Fusion Backup & Restore in OpenShift Dedicated (OSD) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Platform Support Matrix

IBM Fusion Software documentation normally adds separate entries/rows to the platform support matrix (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/fusion-software/2.9.x?topic=services-fusion-platform-support-matrix) for managed-OpenShift platforms. The current mat...
about 12 hours ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Support of CSI drivers for Rancher

There are various customers and prospective using rancher for their kubernetes containers, so it could be valueable to think and work on the support for those environments
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Allow the refreshfromsnapshot command to run when the target has snapshots and/or a snapshot policy.

The refreshfromsnapshot command currently requires that you delete all snapshots and the snapshot policy of a target volume group before refreshing. This isn't ideal in the case when you are refreshing a volume group since you may need to restore ...
18 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Implement filesystemPath in s3 API

We would like to see the flag (--filesystemPath) from the mms3 command on the protocol nodes implemented in the actual API. We have teams that utilize the s3 api that we would like to be able to have them specify the path themselves instead of hav...
3 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info

FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info - These items can cause a cluster wide outage and should be logged as ERRORS. If they were logged as errors, we could pull them into our Kibana dashboard...
9 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

internal E-Mail client - add "sender address" and make authentication optional

with one of the recent major Versions, Storage Virtualize introduced a completetly new e-mail client, which is a great addition to the previous implementation. In the new client we can have a custom port and support for encryption. Also authentica...
19 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Have Volume Group next scheduled snapshot be DST aware

When you have a daily snapshot policy setup for a volume group, the next scheduled snapshot is always 24 hours later. When daylight savings time is involved, this will lead to the snap shot being taken 1 hour later/earlier in the day (according to...
15 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

IBM Tape Tools should be properly supported and developed

The free IBM Tape Tools aren't sufficiently supported within IBM support structure. Some of the tools are to analyze or report on tape are generic and useful for any type tape hardware while others are specific to IBM TS7700, like GETHIST and CPYH...
16 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

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