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Product functionality

Add samlogon cache expiry and add support for manage_gids=yes and to re-authenticate AD users in NFS with sec=sys

The MANAGE_GIDS_EXPIRATION parameter is a configuration option within the NFS Ganesha core configuration file that controls the cache validity duration for group membership information (GID) lookups. The netsamlogon_cache.tdb file in Samba stores ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

adjust installation scripts to work with DNF and the new path for the ln binary

For a while now (since Red Hat 7?) DNF has been the preferred way to install and manage packages on Red Hat systems. The TSM client documents explicitly say RPM should be used. With Red Hat 10 the path to the file link command (ln) changed and DNF...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

AFM - flag for file TTL in AFM prefetch --list-files

When files are prefetch, users knows the useful life of the the files prefetched. In mmafmctl Device prefetch -j FilesetName --list-files, add an flag to set TTL for all the files being fetched. When TTL is reached, eviction should occur. This pre...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

AFM - Update AFMConfig map without service disruption

When NFS Home servers are brought offline for maintenance, we will have automation that updates automatically update the AFM Config map relationship. AFM needs to honor this updated map non-disruptively. Currently this is a disruptive event where ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Storage Insights Global Mirror Average RPO Metric Request

It would provide great value if Storage Insights could capture Consistency Group detail in the “Copy Data” section from the hardware and use that data to provide an Average RPO value by SYSPLEX or Consistency Group. Further, having the ability to ...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Planned for future release

ArgoCD Integration for CNSA deployment lifecycle and automation

We use ArgoCD for Openshift based implementation lifecycle and patching. We need a way to integrate the CNSA images with ArgoCD to automate our CI/CD deployments for the CNSA clients across all our lanes.
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

TS7700 host alert notification when a virtual tape volser stuck during z/OS zVM host failure

A production tape remained stuck in a virtual tape drive, preventing production jobs from reading it. When left unnoticed for an extended period (hours or days), this issue impacted the HSM recycle process, resulting in no tapes being released fro...
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Allow to the replace command to reclaim tapes in parallel

Hi, From time to time we need to run the "eeadm tape replace" command to replace from the tape library, some tapes that the Storage Archive detect some read or write actions and decide that this tape is not healthy and it has to be removed and rep...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Archive Future consideration

Enhance the "Storage system performance monitor status" error message by adding potential causes and recommendations

Today, an error (critical) is raised for "Storage system performance monitor status" without explanations or details. It is difficult for the users to understand the cause, the impact and the possible resolution related to this error. Many other e...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Planned for future release

Oracle on zLinux compatibility for IBM CDM

A client currently uses IBM FlashSystem in a VMware environment and holds a license for IBM Copy Data Management (CDM). However, they plan to migrate their primary workloads to IBM LinuxONE and adopt Oracle on zLinux as part of their future archit...
4 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

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