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Spectrum Scale Call Home for AIX

Provide the Call Home feature for AIX like the Linux feature
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

GPFS for Linux aarch64

Publish GPFS / Spectrum Scale for Linux on aarch64 aarch64 is supported by all Linux Versions (Ubuntu, Suse, Redhat) but not by gpfs
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Support for CSVFS over CIFS/SMB

As a first step towards RFE 105269 (Spectrum Protect Support for CSVFS) backup/restore of CSVFS file system via SMB/CIFS should be officially supported. Right now, it seems to work, but is neither tested nor supported, according to IBM. A "query f...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Add support for Subject Alternate Name in certificate request through the GUI.

Chrome 58 and above now checks for the presence of the Subject Alternate Name in the certificate. If it isn't found, the certificate is deemed to be insecure or broken. The new GUI certificate request feature should ask the user for the SAN name d...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Make mmsdrrestore command able to restore Zimon configuration files

The files /opt/IBM/zimon/ZIMonCollector.cfg and /opt/IBM/zimon/ZIMonSensors.cfg are needed for the pmcollector and pmsensors daemons.When a node is re-installed we use the mmsdrrestore command to restore the GPFS node configuration. Unfortunately ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale, dosen't access to the secondary Active Directory(AD), in spite of AD is Active-Active redundant configuration

*Re-Submitted from ID:134412Please cancel the request of 134412. We are facing to the following situation and our client strongly request to resolve this issue as soon as possible. We think that the function of SS about keeping session with AD sho...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Support for CSVFS

We are using spectrum protect backup software to backup windows environments, one of the requirement from business side to backup CSVFS file system, which is not supported yet.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

GUI for Spectrum Scale MMBACKUP function requested from MD Anderson Cancer Center

Spectrum Scale new RFE being pursued by Tram, Gabe, Jonathan and Raul, via Scale Case TS002279140 and Crit Sit AB1835.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

Provide efficient read-only file-level snapshots

Today, mmclone can be used to effectively provide a read-only snapshot of a single file (mv origfile snapfile ; mmclone snap snapfile ; mmclone copy snapfile origfile). But to clean up the snapshot when it is no longer needed requires mmclone spli...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement Grid control function to fence a cluster automatically when the grid network were unstable.

When the grid network was unstable Hydra Domain Manager on each cluster could be also unstable and cause to wait for logical volume mounting. If the network disconnected completely, the status of the cluster(s) could be changed into "not operation...
about 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 9 Not under consideration

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