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In the Future, adding Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 based on PCIe 6 or CXL 4.0 based on PCIe 7 to the Spectrum Scale to integrate it with Nvidia DGX ( when it enabled the CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0

This is a necessary idea to develop a new version of Basic POD or SuperPOD which can use Nvidia DGX, Nvidia DPUs, Intel IPU, Intel FPGA , Xilinx FPGA and other CXL enabled Accelerators. We can use this super POD for advanced Cyber security solutio...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enable changing local account passwords via RESTAPI

We have a security standard that requires passwords to be rotated every X days or after use use. CyberArk manages the passwords for us. In order for CyberArk to be able to manage a password we need a CLI or RESTAPI that can be called to invoke a p...
almost 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

Automatic update check should be disabled

We want the current versions not to be searched automatically when we enter the administrative interface, A button can be placed for this and only those who want to upgrade over the internet can use this feature.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Data Retention - restrict interaction with node data to node user

We use Spectrum Protect whit Data Retention enabled to store archive data.nobody besides the application should be able to delete single files that are stored in spectrum protect. We work with event based retention. If the event is set from the ap...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

default custom ID required on Spectrum Protect Server Install

Currently a new built of TSM server 8.1 does not create the "admin/admin" ID like it was done with 5.5 versions. THis creates a problem with build automation where it requires a extra step to register a ID adding to build time.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Make the Operations Center Server Activity display user-configurable

Customer would like to see the Operations Center Server Details...Summary tab "Activity over 24 Hours" be more configurable. Specifically, it would be helpful the Activity period could be lengthened and the mouse hover show the actual date and time.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

REST API should support managing fileset access control for remote mounts

Customer wants to change which filesets their compute cluster has access to, based on which group of users are using it. This is to protect groups of users to see each others files, even for root. They will implement filesystem encryption to prote...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add button "Test LDAP connection ..."

In the Spectrum Discover web interface in home screen -> Access management -> Authentication domains -> Add domain connection a button to test a LDAP connection would be useful. Idea: When all text boxes in "Add domain connection" are fil...
about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Improvement in Data Connection UI

In the Spectrum Discover web interface under "main menu" -> "Data Connections" -> "Connections" the header line of the table is not fixed. When scrolling down in the table it's not obvious which column has which information. A fixed header l...
about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Implement a new status i.e Qtree mounted / scanned

As of now, in Spectrum Discover (Data Souce Management) page is not showing what Qtree has been mounted and which one is scanned also. Currently there's a green tick which does not correspond to any reliable information (either Qtree mounted or Qt...
about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

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