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    Scale CSI & CNSA should be package with base scale distribution

    IBM Storage Scale Container Storage Interface Driver and IBM Storage Scale Container Native are add-on interfaces that are included in the base licensing for IBM Storage Scale. They are currently only available via external repositories that requi...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Process and automation to simplify the patching and software update of large node count clusters

    Managaing the the currency of Spectrum/Storage Scale systems are difficult when you have over 1000 nodes within the cluster in question. The request is for the process and automation for both the local repository and cluster endpoints where upon r...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Protocols - S3: multiple supplementary groups for CES S3 managed S3 accounts

    Currently there's only support for a single group ID for each S3 account. This doesn't fit well with normal file system permissions where the same account might need access to several groups of different roles. F.ex. /gpfs/fs1/department might all...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Provide a xattr namespace for xattrs that should disappear once file changes

    It would be useful to be able to set xattrs on files that get invalidated once the file changes. F.ex. we could set a user.valid.backup attribute to indicate that the file has been backed up, and a user.valid.checksum to store a checksum of the fi...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    data tiering of block (ranges ) within a file

    A file needs to be able to be located partially on multiple storage TIERs, depending on various specific conditions like policy rules, selectable by ranges in Bytes or #blocks, rules for file names etc..The goal is that data within one single file...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    CES Support for L3 BGP Network

    Currently CES only supports Layer 2 networks where there is a specific subnet such as 192.168.20.0/24 where the virtual IP (VIP) addresses for CES would get assigned to an interface such as eth0 on a node. This does NOT work with Layer 3 networks ...
    2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Protocols - S3: IPv6 Support

    Support for IPv6 networking with CES S3 (Noobaa)
    2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Updates to tsapplypolicy to stop the after directory and inode scans

    The tsapplypolicy tool is very efficient at safely handling the scans of directories and inodes across many nodes. However it is using very slow tools for sorting and merging this data. As a result we cannot run the mmapplypolicy operation on very...
    2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    improve mmxcp logging and monitoring

    mmxcp logs all output to /var/..../ras/mmxcp.log That is 1. pretty unreadable and not very informative. If multiple instances of the mmxcp are running all logging is done to the same log file. It would be good to have one log file per mmxcp instan...
    2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    TSM client & server support for CENTOS

    Please support CENTOS as a platform for TSM server and client. All other major backup tools support CENTOS as a backup client or server architecture. You cannot stay behind. No support means for us undoubtedly abandoning the TSM (SP) platform.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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