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    Ability to change NSD names

    We would like the ability to change the name of existing NSDs. This change could be done while entire GPFS NSD Server Cluster is down, similar to when you change the NSD ServerList.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    Provide Official lin_tape Driver Support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and 26.04 LTS

    Current Behavior: Currently, the IBM Storage Protect (ISP) Server operates successfully and without issue on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and testing shows identical stability on the upcoming/current Ubuntu 26.04 LTS releases. However, official ISP support o...
    7 months ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    predefined report

    Create a predifined report that can be scheduled to be sent, once a week or once a month, with all the Flashsystems current code level and the recommended code level, plus if they have Advidor alerts, list those too. Very useful for any client, bu...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

    Support routed networks for management and fsp networks

    ESS documentation states that the FSP and Management networks for a stretched cluster has to be: All networks are flat, single namespace (ESS stretch cluster requirements) which I interpret to mean they must be same subnet, not routed. Practically...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    CLI Command to identify the name of the Firmware on the storage

    Currently there is no command which identifies the name of the Firmware on the FlashSystem Storage devices. When we are trying to automate the firmware name cannot be obtained. So this causes a lot of issues whereby people assign random names for ...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

    Move node data from/to container storage pool

    Migration of data from/to directory-container storage pool to/from disk or tape based storage pool is not possible.We need the ability to choose where the data reside and move them as needed without using the node replication feature that requires...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Protocols - NFS: health event if FD hard limit is above threshold

    Ganesha NFS server has a limit of max. open files, which is calculated by 80% of the maxFilesToCache parameter. If Ganesha Server is reaching this limit, Ganesha NFS server will stop working and all NFS clients will loose access to data. In curren...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    move stgpooldir command

    I'd like to se a command likemove stgpooldir <oldstgpooldir> <newstgpooldir>that move all containers in one stgpooldir to another automatiacally and in the background.or change the move container command to accept wildcard and a maxnum...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Support for ERP SAP HANA for RHEL 9 on Power LE

    "Currently, only Spectrum Protect for ERP 8.1.11 exists, which is more than two years old, and supports RHEL 8 on Power Little Endian. However, support for SAP HANA on RHEL 9 on Power is now necessary."
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Under review

    Provide last login time / date via DSCLI lookup

    This is a requirement for audit purposes to be able to provide a list of users with last login date via a feed from the DSCLI. Currently you can get this information via the GUI but we can't get it via the DSCLI commands which is a requirement in ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

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