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    Possibility to deploy/update Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center

    Update of Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center is not possible.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Seamlessy convert subtree into (independent) fileset

    add a command to convert a subtree to an independent fileset seamlessly (without interrupting access for users) and - as a bonus - vice-versa
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Enhance AFM to transfer NFSv4 ACLs from NFS servers like Isilons and store the ACLs correct as GPFS ACLs

    Storage Scale and Storage Scale System are great products. But in many cases, another storage is already used and there are no easy ways to migrate PBytes of data - except perhaps with AFM? Almost all installations use e.g. AD integrations and NFS...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

    Add reasoning to hidden mmhealth events

    When applying gpfs updates it sometime happens that new TIPS events appear. Some of these tips recomment to carefully check the situation and maybe hide the event. It would be really helpful if you could add a user specifiend comment th the hide c...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Manual ticket creation by mmcallhome/GUI

    mmcallhome is capable of creating HW tickets at IBM support portal on failing hardware automatically. Sometimes it would be helpful to create ticket manually. The credential/system information are directly available. Also any snaps and trace data ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    gpfs.snap command and --sosreport option

    If the gpfs.snap command contains the "--sosreport" option, you must be able to specify the node that collects the sosreport. But it doesn't seem to have that feature at the moment. (GPFS 5.2.2.0) When using the "--sosreport" option, could you pro...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    lowInodes Callback for filesets

    The noDiskspace callback is triggered on several occasions, one being an inodespace running out of inodes. At that point n time the filespace is already full and users see "no space on device" errors. We'd need a similar callback that triggers ear...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    ARM Support in Spectrum Scale

    The Jülich Supercompting Centre is running HPC compute resources for the European Science community. The storage solution is based of a central Spectrum Scale storage cluster which is mounted on ~8.000 compute nodes using GPFS remote cluster mount...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

    Open Spectrum protect S3 agent for use by BRMS (iSeries)

    The intent is to open up the S3 Agent for use by entities other than Spectrum Protect Plus. Target for this request is iSeries BRMS which is currently using S3 to send backup data to cloud.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Scale - automatic audit log files rotation

    The File Audit Logging functionality from Spectrum Scale captures file operations on a file system and logs them to a retention enabled fileset.Depending on the number of operations at the Spectrum Scale file system, it can generate lots of audit ...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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