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Add Spectrum Scale support for Red Hat's kpatch feature. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-linux-kernel-live-patching

Anyone that maintains a Red Hat server running Spectrum Scale could benefit from this capability.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Detailed information about a problematic inode

“When we encounter an issue caused by or impacting a specific file which leads to deadlock conditions in the file locking functionality that scale supports the Scale development is able to provide us with an inode value after analysis of gpfs.snap...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

REST API Certificate Renewals for Hydra

In a large enterprise environment we have many certificates that need to be renewed. This additional functionality to the REST API will allow customers to automate the renewals of the management console certificates.
about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

REST API Certificate Renewals for TSSC

In an enterprise environment we need to automate the renewals of our certificates for the TS7700 estate.
about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Deep Archive Integration with Microsoft Entra ID

IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently support integration with Microsoft Entra ID for administrative access. This feature would be particularly useful for customers requiring this kind of integration, and would greatly...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Future consideration

Deep Archive support for S3 Partial Object Retrieval

The current software version of IBM Storage Deep Archive (1.2.0) does not support S3 partial object retrieval functionality. This feature would be particularly useful in the media industry and would greatly increase the adoption of this technology...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Functionality already exists

Provide governance details in Defender Data Resiliency Service for SaaS based application like Storage Protect for Public Cloud

Doing so would enable clients to use Defender to use "Governance" for SaaS based applications and broaden support from the usual on-prem application/infrastructure.
6 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Submitted

Spine switches for Fusion HCI HA setups with FDF

IBM Fusion HCI offers different HA configurations for data replication with Fusion Data Foundation (FDF) as storage provider. Because FDF cannot separate the storage traffic into a dedicated storage network, the HCI uplinks and the customer networ...
5 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Reset of "lsportstats -node port" error counters on IBM SVC.

We would be very pleased and grateful if you could implement the following requirement.For troubleshooting and error analysis purposes, it would be very helpful if the error counters could be reset to 0 to see if various counters (CRCs, link reset...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add an option to quorum groups

We need to add the ability to select specific users for each rule to the quorum, not just the entire cluster. For example, we want to add a rule to restore VMs and Virtual Disks to a specific user group, not the entire cluster.
5 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted