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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Spectrum Scale GPFS client running on z/OS

    Customer desires to speed up time to insights from their systems of record on z/OS.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Allow remote mount for fileset in different paths on the remote cluster to mou

    With the new functionality of remote mount controlled by fileset, it gives the opportunity to grant or deny access to different filesets within the same file system. Although the functionality is deployed on the owning cluster, at the remote clust...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    API endpoint consideration: show file list under a directory

    Currently the gpfs API does not support returning file list under a directory. This limits the developer's ability to retrieve accurate file paths while working with other API endpoints (e.g. get ACL).
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    Data inegrity checksum on stored data

    In the time of Big Data the storage solutions are increasing in magnitude. With the growth of the data the risk of being hit by a silent data corruption also increases. Spectrum Scale itself does not check the data integrity stored on the NSD. It ...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Allow guest access to an SMB share

    With medical instruments and probably many other devices not always connected to an Active Directory domain due to aging operating systems on the instruments' consoles or instruments' vendors restrictions or limitations, it would be necessary for ...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Allow group owners to also query filesets

    We have user filesets (independent) that are owned by root but the group is actually the user. Unfortunately Spectrum Scale seems not to take group ownership into account and only the owner can query the fileset (mmlsfileset) which seems overly re...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Request for Spectrum Scale to support Redhat SSSD as 3rd Authentication Method

    Request for Spectrum Scale to support RedHat Systems Security Software Daemon (SSSD) as a third authentication method. Salesforce # TS001343971
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    Support Red Hat IPA for mmuserauth

    Red Hat IPA / FreeIPA is an identity and authentication source similar to Active Directory. It has LDAP for user information, and kerberos for authentication. It can integrate with Active Directory through trust and replication, and will then cont...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    Request to add "all" option to put filesystem in maintenance mode

    In order to shutdown/startup gpfs gracefully, it is recommended to put filesystem in maintenance mode using "mmchfs --maintenance-mode" cmd before shutdown. However, this command allow only one filesystem at a time. So if the customer has many fil...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    NFS Export: Show connected clients

    Tool that will list the clients that are connected to *a particular NFS (CES) export*
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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