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    Protocols - S3 Object Lock

    We have been requesting this for a long time through other channels and it seems like something that has not yet been acknowledged... it is an important feature to implement for the new CES-S3, we have alot of missed opportunities due to the lack ...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

    Allow hide TIP events only for specific nodes instead of all entities

    TIP events are very useful to give an advice for some parameters to have configuration best practices and to achieve best performance on Scale Clusters. For example : hc_alert_scalehc_00006 = NumaInterleave is not enabled on a multi-CPU system hc_...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Daily local file export of Fusion backup-related configuration data in readable yaml form

    For IBM Storage Fusion, there is already a daily service protection backup of the Fusion Hub configuration. While this is important in disaster recovery (DR) scenarios, it's of little use in day-to-day operations, as the configurations backed up i...
    5 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Redundancy Implementation for Deep Archive Network Switches

    The network switch in the Deep Archive environment is currently configured as a single unit. Although version 1.3 now supports multi‑library configurations, the network switch remains a single point of failure.
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 2 Functionality already exists

    Add Quiet mode in mmdsh to suppress ssh banner message

    when using mmdsh and running cluster level cmds, ssh banner messages are interfering in the outputs which is making mmdsh outputs difficult to read. need a ssh -q equalent in mmdsh to supress these banner messages which are sometime as big as half...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    task-based TPI

    The way Two Person Integrity (TPI) is currently implemented collides with our security policies and is not considered a true "4 eyes principal". When SecAdmin1 approves a time slot of X minutes for SecAdmin2 to do anything with superuser powers th...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Add monitoring for the "phy error counters" that are currently displayed in the tssastools log, and which can only be verified via a snap

    We've encountered several issues related to disk problems and crashes. After opening several cases, in one of them (TS022401811) , we have been notified about a significant increase in these counters. This problem wasn't being reported anywhere by...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    Controller ownership: backend disks and data - new architecture and/or implementation

    Hello Product and Development teams, Over Latin America we faced some situation where customers did see (a lot) value in solutions where multiple controllers can work together, to minimize downtime, to achieve some workload requirements and so on....
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Supporting half-populated R760 nodes in CD mode (concentrated dispersal mode)

    All generations of IBM COS hardware supported nodes with 12 disks in CD mode. We sold quite a few and when we need to replace them with newer generations (customers: Porsche Informatik, KSG, ...) we would need to have a solution similar to the exi...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 0 Under review

    Add snapshot information to mmrepquota

    mmrepquota would be more useful if it included the snapshot consumption for each fileset. This would make bill back, reporting, and growth forecasts much easier. mmrepquota only reports "live" usage for a fileset, but this hides how much "hidden" ...
    16 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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