IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    File Access Logging support for read only remote mounts

    File Access Logging in Spectrum Scale 5.1 eliminates the need for kafka, but it only works if the filesystem is mounted read/write. So a remote cluster with a RO mount is not supported by FAL.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    Automatic ingest for new tapes

    I want to load new tapes into I/O slots and have them automatically moved into available slots based on function (data tape or cleaning tape). Right now, at least one magazine must be fully removed to add new tapes.
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 3 Future consideration

    qos support dio

    qos support dio
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    The client cluster obtains the interface for creating iops/latency

    The client cluster obtains the interface for creating iops/latency
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    Changes for ISP Server/Client

    Will there be an Systemd-Daemon file one day for better controlling of the system processes of the ISP software?Because the ISP server and client software haven't yet an native systemd-daemon and are using still the old SysV-Init-Daemon files whic...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Smaller CES configuration

    CES nodes support a lot of connections - but require excessive amount of memory, even when the amount of connections planned is a lot lower.128 GB as minimum for a node providing both NFS and SMB is way too much.It would be good to have support fo...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    RFE to support kernel weak-updates without rebuilding GPL layer

    One of our customer have a request to make it easier to update kernel for security fixes every few weeks. Currently any time one needs to upgrade kenrel he must recompile GPFS portability layer. However it should be possible to support weak-update...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Storage Target Selection for Comprestimator CLI and GUI

    SPectrum Virtualize provides Comprestimator statistics on board the Spectrum Virtualize layer based on RACE algorithm. There e are other possible hardware / software compression targets (FS900, FS9100, ...) for which Comprestimator is available in...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Enhanced admin security for ESS

    Administrative access to ESS (including but not limited to the WebUI) has a weak security model.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Planned for future release

    You should be able to configure notification of user password expiration.

    A frequent problem I have is that the ESS GUI user accounts expire and I have to get them reset. It would be useful if you could set up e-mail notifications that an account is about to expire. My organization does this .... when my password is wit...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

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