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    AFM - Use non-root credentials for NFS communication between the home and target.

    Currently root privs is required for AFM to communicate between home and target. This poses an issue with infosec. Please allow for non-root credentials for NFS
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Remove unecessary QUERY JOB errors from actlog due to running servermon

    When servermon is activated using the parameter ALWAYSONSERVERMON on, the message “ANR0213E QUERY JOB: No jobs found” appears in actlog every 10 minutes. This cannot be disabled, even if you delete or comment out the entry QUERY JOB FORMAT=detail ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    vMotion support for NSDs under certain architecture patterns

    Among new features of ESXi 8.0 (10/2022), the API notification system was introduced. The API notification system instructs ESXi to coordinate with the guests how events will be handled. This coordination capabilities could be leveraged to enable ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Customer should be able to check the installed VTD_EXEC's via REST-API

    Provide a way to query the installed VTD_EXECs via REST-API GET request. Might just be added to the /GET/clusters/id request.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Functionality already exists

    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...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Get a cartridge lifetime report of entire library inventory via REST API

    Current mount history report is limited to 100 entries. Options to retrieve required information is available: REST API option /v1/dataCartridges/SYD197L9 contains cartridge lifetime, but customer needs to filter out required information. Since TS...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    rmsyslogserver should be sent to remote syslog server

    Setting up a remote syslog server to catch notifications from StorV is an important component in any security framework. Likewise it is important to monitor if syslog notifications get unconfigured. As of today, removing the last/only syslog serve...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Protocols - S3: automatically create new fileset for each new S3 bucket

    With this feature we can use the filesetquota function, snapshot-funktion to maintain the usage and backup of the underlying fs.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Scale performance data collection with non root user in Spectrum Control

    When Spectrum Scale/ESS storage is added using non root user, performance data shows "Not Supported".Only root user can pull performance data in current design. There have been some requirement using "non root" user.
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

    Safeguarded Copy function for latest FlashSystem 5000 products.

    With the introduction of Safeguarded Copy Function, it was decided that a FlashSystem 5100 or greater is required to support this new functionality. Since many Flashsystem were sold to Small and Medium businesses or institutions, we are wondering ...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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