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NFS Export: Show connected clients

Tool that will list the clients that are connected to *a particular NFS (CES) export*
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

TSM operation center reporting issue with DB size of TSM instances in GPFS cluster

TSM DB size was wrongly reported in operations center for instances configured in same GPFS cluster. all instances are reporting GPFS clustered file system size Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center 7.1.4
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Multiple transfer streams between pools for data from a single node

We use a TSM system where the nodes/clients push data first to disk, then the TSM server migrate the data from disk to tape.We have several use cases where nodes periodically push data faster than the ~350MB/s that our tape drives (TS1150) can han...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Support for ROCKY Linux

Client is requesting ROCKY Linux support for their client nodes.
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

command to report version

This idea is specifically CLI related. Currently one has to run "lssystem | grep -i code_ " to get the code level running on IBM Storage Virtualize products. Most other products provide "version" or "ver" or some single word variation to report ve...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Call home via non-config node during SVC cluster crash

Closing complaint AB6210 for Geodis SVC cluster crash, it has been identified that during the crash of the whole SVC cluster, no call home have been sent.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Enhance mmfindinode Performance and Provide SDK API for Path Query by Inode

This RFE requests enhancements to the mmfindinode utility in the GPFS/Spectrum Scale filesystem to significantly improve its performance. Additionally, it proposes the development of an SDK API that allows querying file paths based on inode number...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support of CentOS for SPfVE as Datamover

Due to licensing issues, we would like to use CentOS as the operating system. Unfortunately we could not find the support in the support matrix.After consultation with the support I was informed that this support is unfortunately not considered.Si...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Display freeze time for Remote Copy relationships in Storage Insights and allow thresholds to be set for freeze time so alerts can be sent when freeze time is more than a certain number of minutes out of sync

This idea is being submitted to let IBM know that they need to find a way to add alert definitions in Storage Insights that would allow administrators to monitor the freeze time for Remote Copy groups and change/set the threshold so administrators...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Not under consideration

Check customer informations consistency in both HMC

In the case, the second HCM did a call home, but the customer EMAIL was not present (it was in the first HMC). the problem is certainly an installation problem, but despite this, this problem prevent the support to email back to the customer (writ...
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

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