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    Simplify addition of "ephemeral" native clients

    To add a client to a Spectrum Scale cluster requires that both the client node is booted and for the administrator to run administrative commands on an admin node. In a virtualised environment where clients are elasticly created, this is difficult...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Messages Without Message IDs

    A product family such as IBM Spectrum Protect has a great many components, each of which can have hundreds or even thousands of messages. With so many messages, the customer will need some method to find explanations. In general, many messages are...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    RFE for GPFS - requirement for a non root user to be able to run their scripts under GPFS without errors / SELinux related

    It seems like there is a limitation in GPFS that a non-root user may not modify extended attributes of a file unless they are in the "user" namespace.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    Support for snapshot recall in AFM cache

    Currently, if a file is evicted from an AFM cache fileset, the snapshot file of the evicted file become zeros. Is there a roadmap to support fetching data from home when reading an evicted snapshot file in AFM cache cluster? This feature would be ...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    BA/API client: Call 'vssadmin list writers' only when necessary

    Spectrum Protect Client (BA/API) V8.1.0.0 on Windows unconditionally calls 'vssadmin list writers'.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    On the Storage Scale Server (SSS) formerly ESS, the "mmlsnsd" command should show the NSD disk primary/secondary server relationship as previously done and does so for Spectrum Scale on SANs and Lenovo DSS.

    Having "mmlsnsd" display the NSD disk data path ownership (primary/secondary server relationships) allows customers to balance disk assignments. In addition, Lenovo DSS does this already and customers migrating from Lenovo , like MorganStanley, ha...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    SVC Audit Log Only Viewable for Privileged User

    Currently the audit log can be viewed/downloaded by a ‘monitor' level accountThe audit requirement is that this information should only be accessible by a privileged (admin) account or an auditor level account as per DS8000Applied to SVC and V7000
    over 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    SVC Configurable SNMP Alerts

    Repeat SNMP alerts for errors not fixed within a given window should be configurable
    over 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Add Spectrum Virtualize topology property for alert rule creation

    Add Spectrum Virtualize topology property for alert rule creation Port to local node response time alerts is a good way to check for issue or potential issueThreshold should be different depending of the topologyTopology can be standard, stretch a...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Write-lock files during restore operations

    We regularly have to do partial restores on active systems, and/or on shares where the users still have access and can be impatient. Unfortunate experience and subsequent testing shows that no locks are placed on files while they are being restore...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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