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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Add support for Subject Alternate Name in certificate request through the GUI.

Chrome 58 and above now checks for the presence of the Subject Alternate Name in the certificate. If it isn't found, the certificate is deemed to be insecure or broken. The new GUI certificate request feature should ask the user for the SAN name d...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Make mmsdrrestore command able to restore Zimon configuration files

The files /opt/IBM/zimon/ZIMonCollector.cfg and /opt/IBM/zimon/ZIMonSensors.cfg are needed for the pmcollector and pmsensors daemons.When a node is re-installed we use the mmsdrrestore command to restore the GPFS node configuration. Unfortunately ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

GPFS supports the dirsync mount option

Our bussinuss architure is like FuseClient --> FileServer(GPFS NativeClient)-->GPFS. IBM GPFS does not support dirsync mount option in Linux. GPFS Native Client will save the dir meta changes(create/mknod/link/unlink/rename...) in cache. The...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale, dosen't access to the secondary Active Directory(AD), in spite of AD is Active-Active redundant configuration

*Re-Submitted from ID:134412Please cancel the request of 134412. We are facing to the following situation and our client strongly request to resolve this issue as soon as possible. We think that the function of SS about keeping session with AD sho...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

GUI for Spectrum Scale MMBACKUP function requested from MD Anderson Cancer Center

Spectrum Scale new RFE being pursued by Tram, Gabe, Jonathan and Raul, via Scale Case TS002279140 and Crit Sit AB1835.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

Signing of Spectrum scale modules

Requesting signing of spectrum scale V5 and higher, reason when installing gpfs on SuSE SLES 15 SP1 cluster fail to be active due to, tracedev.ko module not signed. Latest SLES 15 has a security feature secure boot, that deny unsigned modules to b...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Provide efficient read-only file-level snapshots

Today, mmclone can be used to effectively provide a read-only snapshot of a single file (mv origfile snapfile ; mmclone snap snapfile ; mmclone copy snapfile origfile). But to clean up the snapshot when it is no longer needed requires mmclone spli...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Confusing status message 'mmlspdisk'

My Client submits the following:After carrier release the status is even more confusing [DIARSS root@ems1-xcat ~]# mmlspdisk all --not-okpdisk: replacementPriority = 6.77 name = "e1d2s02" device = "//essio32.ib.rsshpc1/dev/sdpe(notEnabled/closed),...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Quota management delegation

I was discussing removal of root use for commands with ibm dev Germany and this came up. Need the ability to delegate quota management to different groups of users on large scale file systems. You can have different admins for different teams resp...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Implement end-to-end checksums for non GNR environments

Implement data block checksums in GPFS to protect against silent data corruption. This is particularly important in an FPO environment where there are no RAID controllers to protect against individual SATA drives returning bad data to the applicat...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

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