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GPFS client support larger memory address space

Currently GPFS client can use upto 1TB address space, but now GPU servers already configured with 2TB memory, and 3T, 4T memory in future. the address space below 1TB might be used by vfio, for nic, gpu passthrough, so GPFS client has very little ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

retset without retrule

The new feature retset requiers to define also an retrule with is basicly a scheduler. We use an external scheduler and don't need the retrule. It's also useless to define an retule for ontime retset. It should be possible to generate an retset wi...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Add "real" system serial to pull down menu so it can be displayed along with the Node ID.

Please add the "real" system serial (78-XXXXX) as an option in the pull down menu of the Resource Tab listing all of the installed system.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Storwize to allow CSV export of volume list from UI

Some of the screens in the Storwize UI allow the contents to be downloaded into a CSV file. Not all screens do. This should be a consistent feature on all screens.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

ARM Support in Spectrum Scale (GPFS)

Our HPC infrastructure is to have a central Spectrum Scale storage solution. all our HPC systems do a native GPFS remote cluster mount.Due to changes in the HPC market we are looking (and also other sides we think) especially at ARM based compute ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

SPP monthly storage & billling report

Report to customer how the allocated SPP storage is used in order to know the space used by each backup nodes.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

DS8000 API - Enhanced Event filter

The current event endpoint does not provide a way to filter out inactive errors and warnings. Neither does the response indicate whether the event is active/inactive. There is no way to poll for currently relevant issues. This filter is available ...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

additional info collumns to job monitoring

Please add additional colums for Total transfer size and Throughput in overview of jobs. (Monitoring)
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Make policy creation use case easier

When creating a policy there are 3 very common stumbling blocks that force them to abandon the definition and start over from step 1. These problems are, roughly in order of occurrence: ***** A. User forgot to define tag for the policy. Currently,...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

Allow client to choose ciphers for HMC's

The z15 allows the customer to pick the ciphers they want for https: to HMC's
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Planned for future release

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