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Improvement in Data Connection UI

In the Spectrum Discover web interface under "main menu" -> "Data Connections" -> "Connections" the header line of the table is not fixed. When scrolling down in the table it's not obvious which column has which information. A fixed header l...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Implement a new status i.e Qtree mounted / scanned

As of now, in Spectrum Discover (Data Souce Management) page is not showing what Qtree has been mounted and which one is scanned also. Currently there's a green tick which does not correspond to any reliable information (either Qtree mounted or Qt...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Limitation in the connmgr pod in OpenShift

We discussed a limitation in the connmgr pod in OpenShift with Joseph Dain in Hamburg. Due to the cgroup settings in OpenShift a pod can only have 1024 pids. Since every scan creates ~100 or more threads we reach this threshold soon causing the wh...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Cross platform migration: Linux x86 to AIX

Allow TSM to restore its database from a Linux x86 server to an AIX server.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Metadata tags cannot be added/associated to Filespaces in Spectrum Protect

Metadata tags cannot be added/associated to Filespaces in Spectrum Protect
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Allow to ignore out_of_memory health issues

We have users running memory-intensive research programs that regularly trigger out_of_memory situations. These clear up pretty quickly. However, the system monitor (mmsysmon) retain the out_of_memory information until the affected host reboots. A...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Future consideration

To develop a report that shows overall capacity consumed per user that adds up local and offline files and versions

Current quota management on Spectrum Scale only considers consumed space of local files. With the introduction of features such Transparent Cloud Tiering for COS, it is needed a control over the space users are consuming for both local and offline...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Support for IBM Storage Discover for local filesystem in IBM Spectrum Fusion / Fusion HCI deployments

IBM Storage Discover is supposed to be an integrated component of the Spectrum Fusion platform. however Spectrum Fusion HCI does not allow for Storage Discover to scan the local Fusion HCI filesystem. This defeats the purpose of using Discover to ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center - Security granularity

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center - Security granularity
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Improve ACL management in Spectrum Scale

Currently, ACL management in Scale is overly difficult. For instance, the mmputacl command requires the entire ACL to be reapplied, rather than just having the ability to add, delete, or modify existing entries. Additionally, inheritance does not ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration