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Add logrotation for cherrypy logs in /var/adm/ras/cherrypy

Please add log rotation for the cherrypy logs in /var/adm/ras/cherrypy They can get quite large and fill up the available disk space.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Delivered

Increase the published limts on stored OBJECTS for DAS/HPO (NooBaa)

The published limits of DAS/HPO do not meet the enterprise requirements of Millennium Partners. The client has requested the following improvements. The IBM Spectrum Scale DAS supports the following scaling options: Up to 10 TB single object size ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

IBM Spectrum Archve EE - A Documentation needs to be updated about reclamation process and what tasks are conflicting when starting it

It is important to know what type of tasks do not allow to start reclamation process. One can schedule all tasks to run in right time. Radek
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Delivered

Automating the management of certificates on devices

The creation, renewal and deletion of server certificates on devices is a manual process that has to be done through the GUI. The management of this can be a lot when dealing with multiple machines and requires a reboot. In the future if, for comp...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Delivered

Upload DS8000 On-Demand Dumps (ODD) from Storage Insights

Would like to be able to upload DS8000 On-Demand Dumps (ODD) from Storage Insights. These are necessary to investigate issues on DS8000 and require to be generated rapidly (contents are rapidly overwritten). As of today, Storage Insights offers on...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Delivered

CSM - add message about completion of background copy ( Flashcopy, SGC recovery)

Currently, after submit of Flashcopy or SGC recovery with background copy - in CSM session messages is logged only submit of this command. Background copy continues, it is indicated in the CSM GUI in session details ( ....copy still continues...) ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Add a user timeout option for the user interface of Copy Services Manager

I know that there is not an option to set a user time out for the user interface of CSM. Due to security and audit reasons there is a need to have a user be logged out after a certain idle time. Having the option to set this to maybe 30 minutes or...
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

HPO to support AFM managed data along with data transfer to AWS S3

In order to provide high-performance hybrid-cloud object storage for Analytics & AI, within HPO, it is required to process S3 object data via AFM to on-prem AND on AWS S3. To place/move objects intelligently on/to AWS S3, HPO AFM needs to supp...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Regional (asych) Disaster Recovery for with Fusion software

Regional (asych) Disaster Recovery for with Fusion software
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 9 Delivered

Unmounting Qtrees

In all pods that perform a scan or perform scans (connmgr pods, our pods that perfom deep inspection scans,.....) a NFS is mounted under nfs/scanner we already have a latency of 1 or 2 secs with only 25 Qtrees being mounted there. We expect having...
about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Delivered