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    Protocols - S3: support S3A

    Our complete Bigdata-Workload are going to use s3A Function to store Data in s3 Buckets. We see no offical support statement from IBM. Please add these to the supportet list of function in usage of s3A. Noobaa as the Base support this why mms3 not...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Protocols - S3: IPv6 Support

    Support for IPv6 networking with CES S3 (Noobaa)
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Upgrading DS8000 to Data Aware Contents Storage and suggesting new series either DS9000 or DS 10000,

    Upgrading DS8000 to Data Aware Contents Storage and suggesting new series either DS9000 or DS 10000, We are in the Era of Agentic Generative AI, using LLMs and RAGs, Although IBM is the inventor of IBM Fusion Content Aware Storage CAS , but we nee...
    4 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    CLONE_DATABASE_MEMORY (Db2) should be configurable PER TARGET

    If you have a machine with multiple FCM clones of DB2 databases, they may have very different sizes and sizing requirements, in particular when the original (source) system has way more memory than the destination (clone target) system. Option CLO...
    4 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Submitted

    Support for Microsoft Server 2025 - WinGet

    The IBM Storage Protect BA Client for Windows uses a complex installation process. spinstall.exe handles C++ package installation, language-specific MST files, and a file-by-file structure. This creates problems for mass deployment on Windows Serv...
    9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Updates to tsapplypolicy to stop the after directory and inode scans

    The tsapplypolicy tool is very efficient at safely handling the scans of directories and inodes across many nodes. However it is using very slow tools for sorting and merging this data. As a result we cannot run the mmapplypolicy operation on very...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Storage Protect server encryption for sequential file storage pools

    The Storage Protect server allows to use sequential file as a storage pool. The Storage Protect server does not allow to enable Storage Protect server internal encryption for sequential file. For security reasons, user data stored on Storage Prote...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Storage Protect server compression for sequential file storage pools

    The Storage Protect server allows to use sequential file as a storage pool. The Storage Protect server does not allow to enable Storage Protect server internal compression for sequential file. To safe disk space utilized by a Storage Protect serve...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    improve mmxcp logging and monitoring

    mmxcp logs all output to /var/..../ras/mmxcp.log That is 1. pretty unreadable and not very informative. If multiple instances of the mmxcp are running all logging is done to the same log file. It would be good to have one log file per mmxcp instan...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Defender Sensor: Add OS support for AIX/Power platform

    For the last couple of years and probably decades, we have told customers that their very business-critical applications should be running on Power/AIX platform. With our Defender strategy, we want to specifically tackle those business-critical ap...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

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