IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Able to monitor and set maintenance mode on external services such as GKLM servers or other dependencies in GPFS GUI and via CLI/REST-API.

    If you have two or more GKLM servers connected to your IBM Storage Scale cluster there is no way to via GPFS GUI disable warnings from GKLM servers (At least not in a user friendly way that I know about) . So when you do maintenance on one of your...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    Reflink/ficlone support

    reflink/ficlone is a system call for making clones of files, where all data blocks is initially shared, and changes are then done through copy-on-write/redirect-on-write. This can be done through "cp --reflink", or IOCTL_FICLONERANGE system call. ...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Support BSD groups semantics

    Customer is migrating from Isilon, which supports configuring the BSD group semantincs meaning that new files inherit the group id of the parent group. Some file systems on linux support the "grpid" or "bsdgroups" mount option to enable same seman...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    IBM CDM should be able to work with more than one Network Card to perform backup and restore operations

    Customer has hosts and storage subsystems placed in distinct networks. We configured a second NIC in the CDM server but once this interface comes UP, all scheduled backup fails, the reason is that they can't find the target hosts, I wonder some ro...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Treeview of copies

    Why don't you add a graphical view of the copies ? It is not easy manage the copies without having a global view of source disks and related copies. Something similar to the attached picture or by exploring a treeview
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Backup on AIX nodes managed by PowerHA

    The High Availability configuration of Power AIX systems is made up of two or more real nodes to which volumes and IP addresses are associated and then managed by PowerHA. In this configuration there are therefore at least three types of volumes:...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Full Copy

    By default backup jobs create the first copy as a full copy on thin volumes. Being a full copy, the 80% threshold set as a warning value is always exceeded, generating emails and alarm events. Is it possible to set by default the value to 0 (disab...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Massive initial load

    During the system configuration phase, it would be useful to be able to do the massive import of providers and identities (whether they are passwords or keyfiles). This would drastically reduce time spent to setup the environment.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Actions on multiple selected object

    If we have to hold/release several jobs we have to do it on each single job. Selecting all the jobs the only available action is "Delete", which is the most dangerous option. I think it can be very helpful for the day by day activity to enable al...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Scale GPFS client running on z/OS

    Customer desires to speed up time to insights from their systems of record on z/OS.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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