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Expose file ownership (UID/GID) and permissions in dsmc query backup to enable self-service restores

We are using `mmbackup` to back up large IBM Storage Scale (GPFS) file systems that are shared by thousands of users.Our goal is to offer self-service restores using `dsmc` while ensuring that users can only restore files they have POSIX-Access to...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) Submitted

TPI - Two Person Integrity - per task authorization

Hi Team, At present TPI - Two Person Integrity feature supports only time-based session authorization, which has some drawbacks as no control over what actions will be carried out by the user who gets elevated privilege, so if we have task-based a...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

SPS: Enhance restore capability to enable restore to an e.g. empty system.

As of today, SPS requires that the to-be-restored filesystem exists before the restore can be executed. There are situation a customer wants to restore data (Db2) to an empty system: The System crashed, needed to be reinstalled, therefore the (dat...
3 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager Submitted

Fix Incorrect Cache State After Lazy Loading

Summary: Fix inconsistency between actual cache state and reported state. Description: After lazy loading, files appear as uncached in tools like tspcacheutil, even though content matches (verified via md5sum). Impact: Misleading cache reporting O...
14 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Per-AFM NFS Health Metrics (Mount-Level Visibility)

Summary: Provide visibility into NFS health per AFM node. Description: There is no granular visibility into which NFS mounts are up or down per AFM node. Impact: Difficult troubleshooting Reduced observability of failures Slower root cause analysi...
14 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Enhanced Lazy Loading & Prefetch Observability (Cache Metrics)

Summary: Provide detailed cache efficiency metrics. Description: There is limited visibility into lazy loading and prefetch effectiveness, especially cache hit/miss ratios. Impact: Difficult performance tuning No insight into cache efficiency Subo...
14 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Deadlock Prevention During NFS Failures

Summary: Prevent system hangs caused by NFS failures. Description: During NFS failures, PcacheWrite/Read operations can become stuck, leading to system-wide deadlocks. Impact: System instability Blocked workloads Recovery complexity Ask: Introduce...
14 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Auto-Resume or Failover Across AFM Nodes

Summary: Ensure prefetch requests survive AFM node failures via auto-resume or failover. Description: Currently, when an AFM node goes down, in-flight or queued prefetch requests assigned to that node fail and require manual retry. This creates un...
14 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Support Custom NFS and mountd Ports in AFM Configuration

Summary: Allow AFM to connect to NFS servers using custom ports. Description: AFM currently assumes default NFS and mountd ports, limiting each host to a single NFS instance. This prevents full NIC utilization since multiple NFS instances per host...
14 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

AFM Resiliency Scoped to Export Map Instead of Cluster-Wide

Summary: Allow AFM failover only among nodes defined within the same export map. Description: Currently, AFM resiliency requires all AFM nodes in a cluster to be configured in the export map for every fileset. This creates an inefficient AFM-to-NF...
14 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

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