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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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IBM Spectrum Protect Client Encryption with IBM Spectrum Scale

Spectrum Protect backup encryption using include.Encrypt for Spectrum Scale client is not working due to unrecognized format "Include Encrypt". Error:mmbackup does not recognize this include rule format: Include Encrypt. The tsbackup33 perl script...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Enhance security for remote Spectrum Scale mounts

When a Spectrum Scale filesystem is mounted to a client (or a remote cluster), the entire filesystem is available. This is a potential security concern.
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

fix mmdiag --stat -Y indistinguishable entries

mmdiag offers -Y for machine-readable output. Unfortunately parsing that output is difficult because there are multiple lines that have an identical identification string. So you really cannot deduce what value you are seeing. The only way to sure...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Increase Spectrum Scale SMB ACL Security Features (host allow, host deny)

Problem: Client wants to increase the security of Samba by implementing host-based access control, in addition to access control by user and password. Solution: To implement the configuration in the Protocol Node SMB service, it would be necessary...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Allow Spectrum Scale Adds and Deletes via List with individual node errors

mmaddnode/mmdelnode current behavior when submitting a "NodeFile" is if one node is in the cluster or fails to add/delete for any reason then the whole list fails. This behavior seems to be the case with most of the mm commands that accept -N <...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Multi-socket TCPIP for gpfs clients

Customer has asked that we change the way GPFS clients connect to the server. Instead of single single stream to a single socket they would like to multi-stream TCPIP for gpfs clients, so they wouldn't be limited to a single socket (and in turn, l...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Scale version on ESS lags behind critical fixes

The version of Scale on ESS lags behind releases of Scale, exposing customers to critical defects.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Support CES NFS on SLES on Linux on Sysetm z

We run SUSE (12 and 15) SLES and the AFM DR. We need to have it running over NFS v4 since NFS V3 is considered not secure.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

mmbackup does not handle EXCLUDE.DIR rules preferentially over EXCLUDE rules

The TSM BA client dsmc by default includes everything in the backup domain (defaults to all local filesystems), optionally allowing one to exclude paths and even re-include paths that would by excluded by previous rules. There are two mechanisms f...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

ESS and Spectrum Scale version numbers don't line up

As it stands today, ESS version numbers do not match the version of Spectrum Scale installed on the ESS. This is confusing. As an example, ESS version 5.3 is Scale version 5.0.3.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

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