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Provide qualified third-party firmware upgrade software packages with ClevOS

ClevOS currently provides IBM branded hardware firmware upgrade packages as part of the ClevOS appliance image. It has been requested to also include similar upgrade packages for COS qualified third-party appliances, such as the HP devices and the...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Improve the performance of small I/O for large files when AFM was enable

I have two storage scale cluster with AFM enable,cluster A as Primary for production,B as secondary for backup,my production cluster performance Seriously degradation whe using small I/O for large files（In most cases, there is up to a thirtyfold d...
1 day ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

SnapDiff v3 with ONTAP 9.13 and newer

It's great that Snapdiff V3 is now available with client version 8.1.23, but support is only available for ONTAP 9.12 and older versions. NetApp told us there is no reason for this. Could you please add support for ONTAP 9.13 and newer? IBM Suppor...
1 day ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

REPL for log collection supported by Spectrum Control

RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in Spectrum Control would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
3 days ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Adding Enhancment on Measurement Monitoring on level of Fileset quota

Because in our company GPFS structure based on three or four filesystem like /production & /test and we created million of fileset based on project name but unfortunately some of these filesets reach maximum quota 100% and application down bec...
4 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Ability to alter the audit log retention period

Hello! We recently came across the need to reduce the audit log retention period of a storage scale system to save some space and we realized that the only way to do that is to disable and re-enable the audit log feature altogether. As an end user...
7 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Spectrum Archive batch selective_recall tasks should utilize duplicate tapes if primary copy is on invalid tape

Our archive system is set to write files to two tape pools for redundancy (and offsiting). Sometimes we will have a recall where tape 1 copy (set a) is on a tape that needs to go thru validation or has some other reason to not be considered valid....
9 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

Resources -> Pools panel displays 100 pools/page and not all the pools on 1 page.

We have more than 300 pools and it needs 4 pages to display all of them.
17 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Enabling versioning and object lock on buckets in GUI

S3 Object Lock with COS is only supported for buckets (containers). The GUI to administer storage accounts, to generate S3 access keys and to create buckets does not allow setting of versioning and/or object lock. Those need to be enabled via an e...
18 days ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Requesting RHEL9.x support for Spectrum Control

Since you support RHEL7 (which is EoL now) and RHEL8 it would only be logic to also support RHEL9.x (which was released over 2 years ago). As we have tons of servers now migrating directly from RHEL7 to RHEL9 the support for it would be tremendous...
21 days ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

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