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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...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Fusion Backup - Support Entra ID or shared access signatures (SAS) for Azure Blob

Currently, Fusion support Azure Blob as a storage location using the account name and key as described here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-fusion-software/2.7.x?topic=locations-adding-backup-storage-location This approach is contrary to reco...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Support BSD groups semantics

Customer is migrating from Isilon, which supports configuring the BSD group semantincs meaning that new files inherit the group id of the parent group. Some file systems on linux support the "grpid" or "bsdgroups" mount option to enable same seman...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Change SPP requirements for WinRM for AllowUnencrypt due to security issues

Currently ISPP requirements for Windows (SQL/Exchange/Windows File Indexing) say to set AllowUnencrypted to true :winrm s winrm/config/service @{AllowUnencrypted="true"}and"Both servers must have a Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service that is...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Planned for future release

vsnap storage migration from EOS/EOL Backend storage to new storage on same vsnap

We have no approved solution to migrate the attached LUNs on a vsnap server to new LUNs on same vsnap server. We need that if backend storage is going EOL/EOS. Currently there is only one solution and this is to create new vsnap server with new LU...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Enhancment to replicate node commando to only replicate nodes in send or sendsync mode

I try to create setups without and errors or warnings from housekeeping scripts.I also try to work with opt-out mechanisms as much as possible for customers that agree to use that backup philosophy. When you build a two-way replicating Spectrum Pr...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to Copy or Tier Storage pool data of File Device class type to S3 compatible COS bucket with Retention Lock set

As we know it is difficult for Spectrum Protect to manage dedup extents when stored or tiered to a cloud container storage pool and is a major development work, IBM developers may think of introducing this functionality which may be quicker and ea...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TS7700 improve cloude connection on dedicated NIC

Currently to implement Cloud connection from FS7700 to any cloud provider the same NIC used for grid replication is used. To improve performances it is helpful to have a dedicated connectivity with additional NIC within VED
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

CTDB Enhancement 50/5000 to ensure an uninterrupted upgrade to new Release levels

The problem with the SMB upgrade is with the data shared between the protocol nodes. It is not tied to the protocol version used between SMB clients and the protocol nodes. Samba stores internal data (e.g. for the SMB state of open files) in tdb d...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Defining a logical library with only cartridge slots but without tape drives

The evolution request on the IBM TS4300 tape library is to have the possibility of defining a logical library with only cartridge slots but without tape drives. This improvement would allow to have an active logical partition which enables cartrid...
about 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Planned for future release

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