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Support for snapshot recall in AFM cache

Currently, if a file is evicted from an AFM cache fileset, the snapshot file of the evicted file become zeros. Is there a roadmap to support fetching data from home when reading an evicted snapshot file in AFM cache cluster? This feature would be ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Direct links to custom dashboards

Allow the ability to directly link to a custom dashboard. In large environments with many different teams, being able to send a direct link to a custom dashboard for that team would be helpful. Also being able to bookmark a dashboard or to use it ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Overlay / Namespace support information (Singularity Containers)

Singularity (https://sylabs.io/singularity) is a container runtime commonly used on HPC systems that include GPFS filesystems. We are trying to understand the level of support in GPFS for overlay mounts (upperdir & lowerdir), and namespaces (i...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Change to TSM Client Code Deployment

Currently the TSM Client Deployment package is coded to check for 2GB of free space on the c:\ drive of a Windows client node. If it is not available the TSM client code will fail to install. The current auto-deployment package for 64bit Windows i...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Lock contention Issue

DB2 locking of a file or portion of a file with direct IO enabled causes issues with mmrestripe from a lock contention prespective.This should be addressed. The decision to change the disk location of a block and not allowing anyone to alter a blo...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Capacity Threshold Alerting

The monitoring "Threshold" only allows for a single value to be set, not a second value. Example. Warning Threshold is set to 70%, when the pool exceeds 70% a Warning level severity alert is send. There is not an option to set a second threshold a...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize 8.4 Password Policy

Per customer request:Spectrum Virtualize Password Policies Hello we would like to use the password policy in Spectrum Virtualize; however, we do not want the policy implemented for superuser, tpc user or storage insights (SIadmin) user. How can we...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

improvements of the RC handling in the CSMCLI framework

For automation it would be easier if a validation of the return code is sufficient for successful CSMCLI command execution.Any Messages not equal Info Messages should result in a RC <> 0
about 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

On the Storage Scale Server (SSS) formerly ESS, the "mmlsnsd" command should show the NSD disk primary/secondary server relationship as previously done and does so for Spectrum Scale on SANs and Lenovo DSS.

Having "mmlsnsd" display the NSD disk data path ownership (primary/secondary server relationships) allows customers to balance disk assignments. In addition, Lenovo DSS does this already and customers migrating from Lenovo , like MorganStanley, ha...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Dismount volume ALL - Add extra functionality

In a environment with a lot of tapedrives (VTL) sometimes you want to dismount ALL the volumes at once. We use TSM Library Managers for VTL's > 256 drives. Each time you have to wait a couple of minutes (devclass - mountret) before al volumes a...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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