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E-mail notification when ticket is successfully created, and log successfully uploaded

SI allow to create, update ticket and upload logsUser should receive an e-mail notification when one of these actions is successful or fail
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Increase number of dependent filesets

Guardant Health is using Kubernetes to control their workflow. They will have thousands of jobs and they will need thausands of PVCs. The projection is that they will go over the 10,000 fileset limit in 2022. The target for 2022 would be at least ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Whitelist IP/Subnet for VADP/VSNAP NFS mounts

Ability to whitelist IP/Subnet for inbound NFS mounts. Customers who use NAT/masquerade clients on different subnets reach timeouts when attempting to mount shares due to the client IP mismatched from the NAT IP, assuming entries listed within /et...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Need to improve file restore option to assign limited restore permission

Need to improve file restore option to assign limited restore permission because in the current version we have to implement multiple settings.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add non root access to ESS nodes with AD authentication

This RFE is to request the ability for adding non-root user ids to the ESS systems with authentication such as external AD. The current options are: 1) sudo wrappers using the following procedure on page 80 : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgec...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

Client Deploy should not break 100% if one single server fails package prepare. Failure causes should show up in the GUI. Documentation should show troubleshooting details.

If you have multiple spectrum protect servers which are replicating, and then you enable client deploy,then if any one of the deploy targets has an error, such as a replica server that was offline,and then if you have daily replication which pushe...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Resources > Hosts view does not show the Health Summary status table

The Hosts view (Resources > Hosts) does not show the Health Summary status table at the top of the page, next to the device image. In comparison, reviewing all the other Resource views, they all have the Health Summary status table: - Resources...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

File Audit Logging x Object/S3

With Scale we have FAL for NFS and CIFS, for Object/S3 we have the capability to have the mapping for the SWIFT API user only and not with the specific user or application that is submitting the request (put, get, etc). Our client is asking thew c...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Improve documentation on Spectrum Protect Object Agent

See related case TS008878679. There is no documentation on the configuration details of the Object Agent. The object agent is needed to offload data from Spectrum Protect Plus to Spectrum Protect. There is no documetation on the object_agent_confi...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support openSUSE as a GPFS client

SLES is an officially supported Linux distribution for installing GPFS/Scale (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.1.9?topic=gpfs-software-requirements). openSUSE is binary compatible with SLES as of version 15.3 (see https://www.suse.com/c...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

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