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NSD client IO should have a time-out and a retry tunable per filesystem (JUMP Trading LLC)

The current Spectrum Scale configuration does not give the customer the ability to provide a timeout or retry values to NSD client IO. Since these tuning parameters do not exist, this can result in hung IOs or unexpected IO errors when the NSD ser...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Image encryption

By not allowing a image backup to be encrypted a potential security breach may arise. The particular situation is that a few files in a filesystem are encrypted. A image backup will negate that as it stores all files/blocks and all files will be r...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Migration from CPS

Provide capability for customers to move from legacy CPS hardware to fusion
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Not under consideration

FlashCopy Manager for VMware - GPFS Support

FlashCopy Manager for VMware - GPFS Support Customer thinks about integrating GPFS as VMware storage layer. Additionally, FlashCopy Manager for VMware should be used to backup / recover the environemnt. Today, GPFS is only supported for FCM for UN...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Inckude/exclude/wildcards/regex

Like to use wildcards/regex and/or include/exclude statements whenn selecting:* datacentre* hostclusters* hosts* vm's* storge
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Self cooling racks

We run into instances where the DC does not have adequate cooling. We can provide the customer with option of self cooling racks, such as - https://www.netrackindia.com/blog/self-contained-racks-with-cooling/ We ship the stacked racks to the custo...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

one way password implementation on tsm server

During a security audit we found some probleme with the implementation of password allgorithm in TSM. It is recommended to immplement a one way password encryption algorithm, at least for the TSM server accounts (Admins, server to server, lan free...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Make mmclone permissions work like cp

Currently, a file clone created with mmclone always has its group owner set to the primary gid of the creating process, without regard to the setgid bit of the containing directory, and without regard to the group owner of the original file. Other...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to define the mirrorwritepriority parameter during creation of a vdisk mirroring in the GUI.

Ability to define the mirrorwritepriority parameter during creation of a vdisk mirroring in the GUI.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Notification of events related to the temperature of SVC cluster nodes in the Storage Management (GUI).

We need to view on the Storage Management or a event log, the events related with the temperature threshold of the SVC nodes.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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