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Overlay / Namespace support information (Singularity Containers)

Singularity (https://sylabs.io/singularity) is a container runtime commonly used on HPC systems that include GPFS filesystems. We are trying to understand the level of support in GPFS for overlay mounts (upperdir & lowerdir), and namespaces (i...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Incluir a possibilidade de desativar a vizualização no actlog de algumas mensagens.

O actlog é uma ferramente importante para a administração do sistema, porem em alguns casos a quantidade de informaçẽs que ali são exibidas dificultam a utilização do mesmo para monitorar e diganosticar algumas taregas e eventos. Sugiro a opação d...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Digital Encryption Key delete notification upon pool or rank removal

Upon child pool deletion (or rank deletion) CLI response and GUI popup will display a confirmation message that confirms the deletion of the encryption key and constitutes NIST compliant crypto erasure.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Capacity Threshold Alerting

The monitoring "Threshold" only allows for a single value to be set, not a second value. Example. Warning Threshold is set to 70%, when the pool exceeds 70% a Warning level severity alert is send. There is not an option to set a second threshold a...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Using DB2 JSON functionality in Spectrum Discover

We've found a need for more complex tag values in our use cases for Spectrum Discover. An example of this is the ability to associate an entity with a document, where the entity has its own attributes. One such entity could be a "creator", with at...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

Fine(r) grained RBAC model

As of today Spectrum is having hability to grant rights according to end user profile. A user can be for example a collection admin or a data user having then a set of predefined permissions. Would it be possible to assign finer permissions based ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

RESTORE ONLY PERMISSIONS?

Restore only ACL permission
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

SVC customizable volume presets

Would be great to have customizable or additional Volume presets in the SVC (and Storwize V7000) GUI:1) "customizable" means the SVC administrator could change /create new presets (according to his needs)2) or we would provide more presets (eg cre...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

IBM SP Client/API encryption

Allow the client and api to use external source for encryption keys storage, like SKLM.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Future consideration

VMware dissimilar recovery

Ability to select VMware side components, such as available LUNs and network interfaces, during recovery of VMs to alternate environments. This would allow VMs to be restored and function with the configuration which is dissimilar to the original
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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