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    Need a rest API that returns File System and Disc component health status correctly

    Please fix the RestAPIs [below] to return healthy events for File system and Disc components as they do not match with CLI output from the mmhealth command. Ticket #TS016301085 documents this issue. [curl -k -u user:psw -X GET --header `accept:app...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Customer would like product enhanced to record the username of the modified/deleted user.

    The customer recently had an internal security audit for Virtualize 9.1. One of their findings was as follows: Description: If the solution has local accounts, are the below activities logged? a) Creation/modification of roles/profiles b) Modifica...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    REST API call for the "mmexpelnode -l" command

    Hello. I suggest creating a REST API call equivalent to the "mmexpelnode -l" command. We monitor the environment via the REST API, and it would be useful to monitor the nodes that have been expelled from the cluster to trigger specific alerts for ...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

    Support Storage Scale Stretch cluster with metroDR of FusionSDS

    IBM always push SDS approach. Giving customers the chance to use Storage Scale SW version as Active/ative storage ( stretch cluster) on fusion SDS will open us lots of opportunities
    over 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 4 Future consideration

    DR feature in Fusion Access for SAN

    Disaster Recovery (DR) feature in Fusion Access for SAN.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

    CNSA OpenShift Linux User Namespace Support

    Linux user namespaces (hostUsers: false) in OpenShift 4.20 enable stronger workload isolation by removing the need for containers to run with host-level UIDs. This is a key security feature aligned with modern Kubernetes best practices and Red Hat...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Allow customer local break-glass accounts to remain active when Direct LDAP is enabled on TS7700

    Today, when Direct LDAP is enabled on TS7700, customer access depends on LDAP authentication. If LDAP becomes unavailable because of directory outage, DNS issue, certificate issue, connectivity problem, or bind account issue, customer administrati...
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Ability to grant access on a virtual path level within a bucket

    A topic we discussed with the client was the ability to grant access on a virtual path level within a bucket. This can be achieved with bucket policies. However, in Scale S3 we do not support the Condition clause of a bucket policy. The condition ...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    REST API to get performance metrics (including RPO) for volume groups

    Need a REST API to get the performance metrics for volume groups that are displayed in Storage Insights. This includes the RPO metrics.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

    Add clip functionality to ZCPYS / CSM

    Add functionality to ZCPYS and/or CSM to enable the clip of the VSN prefix on any flashcopy session. For example - we take a FlashCopy of a system with a VSN prefix of VA. Use ZCPYS to change the VSN prefix on the Flash Copy session from VA to VQ ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

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