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Monitor Spectrum Archive components in mmhealth

Spectrum Archive is missing from mmhealty. Please add monitoring of services and sub-component status similar to tiering to cloud. Lots of library, drive, cartridge and task statuses are easily available from the eeadm command.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Disable NFS export

When having maintenance on larger file systems, it's advisable to first do a clean shutdown, and then enable maintenance mode with mmchfs --maintenance-mode to avoid anyone mounting or processes messing with the file system. This is quite problema...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Offer options for excluding the accumulation of some messages related to Safeguarded Copies taken off the GM Secondary in the DSGUI Events

I currently have no visibility on events that occurred more than 3 hours ago on my primary site DS8950F because of a flood of informative " Remote Relationship State Changed" caused by the CGPAUSE needed for the SGC process taking place at seconda...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Externally connect to Management switch to remote support HCI

A customer asks to have the chance to externally connect to the internal switches of Spectum Fusion HCI to remote support the appliance in case Red Hat OCP doesn’t work because two master nodes failed or an administrator blocked the Red Hat OCP ma...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

Include VOLSER information in Cognos Reporting for Spectrum Control

On version 5.3.x and previous versions of Spectrum Control, VOLSER data for DS8000 arrays was present in Cognos using the Storage Volume Name. In 5.4.x, the output of Storage Volume Name is different (using the CKD volume name); the VOLSER informa...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Add SAML support

At the present time, SAML does not seems to be supported, only LDAP.
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Make CSI upgrade easier for disconnected clusters

At the present time when you want to upgrade spectrum scale's CSI there's no clear documentation: I go to the target version section and then to the 'upgrade' part. But there's nothing written for a disconnected cluster and for RHEL servers. To ha...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Have up to 10 data connections in circle graph

The home screen of the Spectrum Discover web interface shows a circle graph with all data connections. This may be useful if you only have up to 10 data connections but it is confusing with more data connections. It may also cause problems when we...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect for VE restore only one disk, default space issue

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Restore Issue. The product design only permits these options when you want to restore only one individual unit like c: 1. If the target guest does not exist yet, space will be assigned on the datastore for...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

DeferredDeletion per INODE filespace

When an user deletes his files in a GPFS file system the inodes are freed directly, but for the data blocks an DeferredDeletion process is triggered which will delete the related data blocks in a background process. The quota usage of this user/gr...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration