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    Add Spectrum Scale support for Red Hat's kpatch feature. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-linux-kernel-live-patching

    Anyone that maintains a Red Hat server running Spectrum Scale could benefit from this capability.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

    Storage Scale Recompilation Requirement Post-RHEL Kernel Upgrade

    Request IBM to remove the need for binary kernel module recompilation after RHEL kernel updates for IBM Storage Scale. This requirement adds operational overhead and complexity to patching and automation processes. While RHEL provides stable ABIs ...
    12 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    change the default data collection behavior of gpfs.snap utility

    the default behavior of gpfs.snap is set to collect afm recovery data to include in the snap archive uploaded to IBM, Please create a switch in the gpfs. snap utililty to give the ability to exclude this afm data as this is financial data that may...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Signed kernel modules for Ubuntu 24.04

    Signed kernel modules, as delivered for RHEL, is necessary to run Ubuntu servers with Secure Boot enabled.
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enable mmbackup to Work on Dependent Filesets

    Currently, mmbackup does not support running directly on dependent filesets. This limitation creates operational challenges in environments where independepdent fileset reach upto max limit (3000) . Customers cannot prevent dependent filesets grow...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Option for consistently following symbolic links in AFM

    AFM's default behavior updates symlinks without fetching the target file at the home site. This behavior can cause applications that are relying on that symlink to break. We are requesting a feature that allows AFM to follow symlinks if the target...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Planned for future release

    Enhance mmchfileset like commands to move from dependent to independent or vice versa

    Clients would like to convert to different types of filesets.
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Protocols - S3 Glacier for Storage Protect managed tape libraries

    It seems the feature has been implemented in NooBaa, but Storage Scale still does not officially support the S3 Glacier feature. Without S3 Glacier support, S3 users have no idea that their data has been migrated. This creates challenges for syste...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Future consideration

    Provide helper to determine metadata size

    We have a GNR cluster with > 650 million files, distributed over two filesystems. All disks are DataAndMetadata. Policy runs and mmbackup are taking very long. One speedup suggestion of the GPFS support was to use explicit metadata storage. Unf...
    20 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Need a rest API that returns File System and Disc component health status correctly

    Please fix the RestAPIs [below] to return healthy events for File system and Disc components as they do not match with CLI output from the mmhealth command. Ticket #TS016301085 documents this issue. [curl -k -u user:psw -X GET --header `accept:app...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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