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SIDhistory support needed for AD domain migration

Our customer is going to merge 2 hospitals into one new Active Directory domain and needs to have support for SIDhistory to keep access to files from both old domains. This is needed in SAMBA in CES. Support for SIDhistory is already available in ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Protocols: Support a PAM configuration supporting winbindd and Active Directory, not local accounts only, on ces nodes.

Currently protocol nodes using Active Directory authentication don't support accounts from AD when you connect with ssh. The needed pam_winbind.so pam module is not provided by scale/protocols. Only local accounts work. Maintaining local admin acc...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Support Red Hat IPA for mmuserauth

Red Hat IPA / FreeIPA is an identity and authentication source similar to Active Directory. It has LDAP for user information, and kerberos for authentication. It can integrate with Active Directory through trust and replication, and will then cont...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Requests and limits for statefullset ibm-spectrum-scale-gui in Spectrum Scale container native shoud be configurable

Currently CPU request for gui pods is set to 500m. This request is too large for small clusters and pod typically use ~10m. This can prevent other workload to be sheduled and it's wastefull especially in small multicluster scenarios.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Certificate used on port 1751

DS8950F -> Port 1751 have Certificate lifespan is longer than 5 years root CA=/C=US/postalCode=85744/ST=Arizona/L=Tucson/O=International Business Machines/OU=Storage Systems/CN=ESSNI_NIST Issuer: C=US/postalCode=85744, ST=Arizona, L=Tucson, O=I...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

No comma's in session and process numbers

For almost 20 years I work with ADSM/TSM/ISP I'm super annoyed that you can't do an easy copy/paste of the session or process number to the cancel command if the number is higher then 999 Please remove the comma when you do a query session or quer...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

gpfs client support rocky linux

we expect gpfs client support more operation systems to meet the needs of mostusers， for example rocky linux
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Management API does not distinguish between NFSv4 and POSIX ACLs

When using the GET ACL request https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_5.0.3/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r03.doc/bl1adm_apiv2getfilesystemacl.htm It _always_ reports the ACL is of the NFSv4 type, even if the ACL is POSIX This is false i...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 and VEHSTATS tool - ORDERALL member

Today, for each new version of VEHSTATS tool, the customer have to manually customize a new ORDERALL member which is time consuming (ORDERALL member is around 1200 lines today), fastidious, with a high risk of errors.The customer wish to have the ...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Operation Centre export/import custom Report

Spectrum Protect Operations Manager keeps the custom report in the hub server in a scratch table. When moving the hub to another server there is no easy way of exporting and importing into another hub server.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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