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Support for GPFS Immutable Fileset to be used from NFS exports

GPFS 3.5 and higher has built-in capabilities providing the SnapLock function to make files immutable (WORM protected). This function is based on immutable file sets but it not supported. SnapLock essentially allows to make file immutable using st...
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Make GMCV FC Mappings use distinct Dependency Chain

Make GMCV FC Mappings use their own dedicated 'chain', with no dependencies to other FC Mappings using the same Source Volumes. GMCV establishes a FlashCopy Mapping from the source/production volume to the Change Volume (as well as a reverse FC Ma...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

mmsmb support hosts allow option

Currently it is not possible to specify the "hosts allow" option when adding/changing a smb share via the mmsmb command. Though it is possible to add it with net command. E.g:net conf setparm exportname 'hosts allow' <ipaddress> This option ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Cancel process ALL

Add extra Cancel Process options - Cancel Process ALL- Cancel pro migration (or cancel migration)- Cancel pro backup (or cancel backup) For each process name a Cancel command. Cancel Expiration and Cancel Export already exists.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

MASTEROVERWRITE option that prevents append to an existing file or volume

There exists a need in some environments to have a LWORM or RMM option that specifies that once a dataset is initially written no further writes are allowed to the tape volume. Either an enhancement to LWORM with an option that limits Write Mount ...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

SMB lease support

Migrating system currently using a windows share to Spectrum scale and experiencing performance issues:The Windows server grantsSMB leases to the client, thus multiple opens won't break the client caching. As a result there are fewer and larger RE...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Enhancment to Spectrum Scale DMAPI - dmapiEventTimeout code

The Spectrum Scale Data Management API for HSM integration has a configuration parameter dmapiEventTimeout with specific behaviour for NFS environments. However, this behaviour does not translate to other protocol scenarios such as AFM, SMB or Obj...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add http/https proxy support to Spectrum Protect Server (cloud storage pools)

Spectrum Protect Server don't have the option to configure a http/https proxy to communicate to internet. When a cloud storage pool is configured, the server must to communicate with the cloud provider directly.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Vdisk mirror – out of sync condition / reporting

It would be a great improvement to show stale copies immediately in the Event Log, send as an SNMP trap or for example an email notification.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

On-demand Backup of all SQL Database of the one instance

We need options to On-demand Backup of all SQL Database of the one instance.Currently we need to select one by one database to on-demand backup.Best way is to have the 2 options, select one database or all of an instance.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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