IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Scale Storage Native Driver for Mainframe zOS

    We are trying to get access to the mainframe storage on the midrange end to allow Data and AI tools like Content Aware Storage and Watson Knowledge Catalog. Following are the gaps: 1. There is no native driver for zOS. Current support is limited t...
    6 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    CNSA - support Kubernetes on Azure Linux

    IBM Storage Scale will be able to provide the high-performant, scalable, and highly-available storage subsystem to meet the I/O requirement for containerized AI workload running on large GPU clusters with Azure Linux.
    12 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    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...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Future consideration

    mmdsh rest api command

    With the transition from ssh-based commanding to the Rest API, the functionality of mmdsh needs to be maintained. Currently, this command's functionality will no longer be supported once a cluster is migrated off of ssh-based communications. Many ...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Allow hide TIP events only for specific nodes instead of all entities

    TIP events are very useful to give an advice for some parameters to have configuration best practices and to achieve best performance on Scale Clusters. For example : hc_alert_scalehc_00006 = NumaInterleave is not enabled on a multi-CPU system hc_...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    expand the number of hosts that a nodeclass can have

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

    killing running mmbackup processes on all participating nsd server

    In some circumstances (maintenance window / problem investigation) it is important for us to kill all mmbackup sessions on a scale cluster. We, as the storage and backup admingroup in our company struggeling currently in missing a feature that mmb...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Integrate S3 commands into the REST API

    We have an automatic workflow which provisiones storage with the help of the REST API (and not mm* commands)Since we want to automate the S3 part, we need s3 commands in the REST API. So the request is to provide S3 administration via REST API, id...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Protocols - S3 Object Lock

    We have been requesting this for a long time through other channels and it seems like something that has not yet been acknowledged... it is an important feature to implement for the new CES-S3, we have alot of missed opportunities due to the lack ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

    For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

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