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    Quota calculation and capacity presentation based on files size

    User quota and file set quota are calculated based on allocated capacity on GPFS (kb_allocated). If files are moved to an external tier, e.g. by transparent cloud tiering, the file system utilisation will be decreased. Storage admins should have t...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Enable AWS STS support

    Currently generating a temporary token is associated to an object or file. In the case of many thousands of files we would prefer STS which would allow us to create temporary Sessions associated to a bucket that can be used to upload, via S3 many ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    TS7700 - Setup of the timezone (to send RSyslog records with the same time as the receiving system)

    TS7700 and TSSC do support the setup of an RSyslog Client and externalize the log collection. However, it is not possible to define a local timezone on either TS7700 or TSSC. This results in a mixture of log entries in the receiving Syslog Server ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Build a possibility to upgrade existing FCM4 arays created by <8.6.2 to the new functionality with ransomware detection

    Many customer will install on LTS versions for stability and fast coming PTFs. We will now deliver FCM4 modules with better ransomware detection possibilities. But it will not possible to use this with arrays formatted <8.6.2 , what is a CD ver...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum IBM Spectrum Protect Replication to 3rd SP Server and/or Public Cloud Storage

    We can currently only replicate a node's data to only 1 IBM Spectrum Protect server. Various customers now have a requirement to replicate to a 3rd site or to the cloud.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 6 Not under consideration

    Extend PBR command set

    Currently PBR has some "limited" set of command available, because the idea was to keep it simple and more automatic possible. Some customer which are exploring PBR, believe that having the chance to "STOP" and "START" a VG replication w/o necessa...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

    Add new option for the tag value in content search policy: "1st Capturing Group"

    In content search policies, you can use a regular expression to match content, selecting True/False or "Value matching expression" to be used as the tag's value. For example: Regular Expression: \b[\w_-]+\d{5}[\w_-]+\bContent: /opt/applications/da...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 3 Not under consideration

    CES-S3 Glacier Support for Spectrum Archive managed Scale Cluster

    Enhancement of using our implemented solution on base of ESS, Storage Scale and Storage Archive environments.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Suppression of ro BR token when reading at RO mode

    A BR token is used to keep cache coherency of data across nodes. We experienced that 'ro BR' token is requested by each node even other nodes read the same rage of data at the same time. Unless the range is never changed by all nodes, getting of r...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    Installation DSCLI via Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)

    In the past we used DSCLI on Windows. In this environment we got informations about the software itself and security vulnerabilities automatically via a software management tool. If there was a breach or new version we got automatically informed. ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

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