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Allow to remove commands from AlwaysOnServermon

The SP server AlwaysOnServermon is a very useful and well accepted support tool. Nevertheless, in some situations diagnostic SP server commands executed by servermon my cause trouble to productive SP server environments. In our case, SHOW ALLOC ca...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

CES-S3 should support multiple groups per S3 account

Currently there's only support for a single group ID for each S3 account. This doesn't fit well with normal file system permissions where the same account might need access to several groups of different roles. F.ex. /gpfs/fs1/department might all...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Secure Boot for IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA – A Necessity for Secure Cloud Infrastructures

1. Problem Statement and Urgency Current Requirement to Disable Secure Boot: IBM Spectrum Scale currently requires Secure Boot to be disabled to run on OpenShift. However, in modern cloud environments, especially in security-critical infrastructur...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to backup to Dell DataDomain

DataDomain cannot ingest S3 objects. It can ingest NFS. Need to be able to write Fusion Backup objects to NFS on DD.
14 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

PPRC with LUN's greater than 4TB

The customer in CMVC 372631 (BANK_OF_PIRAEUS) wants to migrate data from DS8900 (75KND00) to DS8A00 (78NWC50); involving volumes with a size of more than 4 TB. Current code has a boundary to allow for replication of a volume above a size of 4TB.
14 days ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Storage Insight Reports over all disks on all storage systems

Problem to solve the question: Do I have a storage system with a disk affected by a certain (faulty) firmware? SI is a central inventory system, which already collects the data of all storage systems and has this information already. It's a common...
14 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

SP Server certificate management

Signed certificates gets shorter lifetime (down to 3 months), and intermediate ca (typically 2 years now) gets shorter and shorter lifetime. This adds lots of work for certificate management on SP servers. We can script most of it (create request,...
14 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

S3 API Signature listing for Storage Scale documentation

Visa is currently testing integration with an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD deployed with an IBM Storage Scale System. Visa is going to test data movement between the IBM Storage Scale System and an S3 target as part of a PoC. Visa requires the S3 API signa...
27 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

extend mmapplypolicy --scope

I have a filesystem with >1300 independent filesets and ~540 million files. Running mapplypolicy with --scope filesystem takes a long time because all inodes need to be scanned. For some mmapplypolicy runs I only need to process one fileset so ...
27 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Upgrade of ISP4VE 8.1.23 to 8.1.23.x deletes key.jks truststore

The upgrade from ISP4VE 8.1.23.0 to 8.1.23.x deletes the C:\IBM\SpectrumProtect\webserver\usr\servers\veProfile\resources\security\key.jks truststore file and the steps which are documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spfve/8.1.23?topic=cssdpv-...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

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