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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Enhance Installation Toolkit Support for Cluster with active usesudowrapper configuration

We are planing to Implement saveguard vault design with use of saveguard snapshots. One requirement here the cluster must use sudowrapper as a prerequisite to work and beeing secure.The ansible installationtoolkit has currently no support for sudo...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Provide mechanism to choose whether webhook messages events field may carry an array of events or just a single event

Spectrum Scale is capable of sending webhooks to recipients. These hooks contain information about events and such. According to Scale’s documentation, this is the json payload of such hooks: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.5?topic=...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Avoid un-necessary audit logging for ls/mmlsattr/ILM list policy.

ls/mmlsattr/ILM list POLICY are creating OPEN event logs. AFAIK, these actions doesn't open the file only read the metadata of a file, generating the audit logs on these kinda operations is creating lot of audit logs for us. It's mentioned in doc,...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Create empty nodeclass

We need to create nodeclasses before we have nodes available to assign to the node class. This will allow us to set GPFS configuration for the nodeclass through our configuration management scripts and help ensure we have standardized configuratio...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

DMAPI session info truncated on non-session nodes

observed on Spectrum Scale 5.1.0 + 5.1.5 invoking dm_query_session on the session node returns session info as expected. However, invoking the same call on non-session nodes returns the first 8 bytes of session info only, followed by the NULL cha...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

DMAPI dm_getall_disp returns unexpected dispositions

observed on Spectrum Scale 5.1.0 + 5.1.5 For the set of sessions and dispositions: M1 - session which has called dm_set_disp on the global handle to receive mount events F1 - session which has called dm_set_disp on an fs (fs1) during a mount event...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale DMAPI Locking issues

mmap calls are allowed against files where we have acquired DM_RIGHT_EXCLUSIVE, as long as the handle used for mmap was opened before the exclusive right was acquired. Acquiring DM_RIGHT_EXCLUSIVE access on a file with current active mmaps succeed...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Config Changes in GUI

Provide the ability for the Spectrum Scale GUI to show and make changes to the GPFS config parameters and provide recommendations to nodes and nodeclasses in the GUI. A tuning page would check the configuration of nodes and nodeclasses and allow f...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Provie a button or tab that exposes API calls that would have resulted in the previous GUI activity.

The command line actions used are shown when a GUI action is completed, but this does not always map to a specific API call or sequence of API calls. It would be helpful for those trying to move to automated workflows to see what the API call woul...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Use enterprise SATA drive in ECE

In our configuration, except SAS HDD/SSD and NVME, we also need to use enterprise SATA HDD/SSD as pdisk in ECE. These SATA drives can pass the ECE precheck for DpoFua and SCT ERC. The attachment is the list.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

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