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    Prevent attribute changes by non-root users

    We are running a big filesystem that controls file access by (nfsv3) ACLs. The ACLs are carefully crafted to ensure the desired file accesses for the data. As ACLs are not directly visible via ls (there's only the tiny + character) users tend to m...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    CES NFS - identify client stale I/O errors

    Following case - TS018623841.Client NFS when working with several NFS clients - each mounting different CES NFS node , loading python modules - get Stale I/O in random steps. 1. Same python is used through the same script.2. We use autofs to mount...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Provide Notification When PPRC link failure rate is high on all PPRC paths

    We recently had a WAN issue where one of the circuits was experiencing very high packet loss for carrier A. Even though there was a second healthy circuit provided by carrier B, the failure rate was so high on carrier A's circuit that all PPRC pat...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Support nested groups from Active Directory

    Currently SPP does not supported nested Active Directory groups.Only direct group members are able to login. With a "nested" group member - so a member of a group under the added group doesn't work.Here's what I mean: Group 1 (added to SPP) <- ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Allowing for hybrid connections in the same Diamondback (SAS/FC)

    Allow for customer to order a Diamondback with a hybrid of SAS and fiber channel drives. Allowing a single Diamondback to support different type of workloads/connections vs requiring two Diamondbacks to achieve this.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    TSS - Enable DNS over TLS

    To implement concepts like zero-trust it must be possible to define in the TSS management console the Name Server as a secured one using DNSSEC and either DNS over HTTPS (DoH) or DNS over TLS (DoT).
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Management interface bond (port-channel)

    For environments that rely heavily on a working management interface (automation, flashcopy scripts) would benfit greatly with the ability to bond two of the ethernet ports for management. If common that the upstream switch can run a port-channel ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Storage Rule-COPY: hydrated tape copies directly on the Target pool by using copy storage rules

    We want to make copy of our Primary Disk based Directory Container pool into Replication server but directly on tape (hydrated tape copies), so we can directly be able to restore the data using BA client at our DR location as well as no need to re...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Ansible modules for DS8000

    Provide an ansible collection with modules to perform the equivalent of DSCLI using playbooks. ** Note the RFE webpage forced me to choose an operating system and z/OS was the only choice. This is not a z/OS operating system request
    over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    SPP: Progress bar for Replication & Archive

    Currently ISPP only shows a working progress bar for Backups. For Jobs like Replication and Cloud Offload the bar stays at 0% until the end and then jumps to 100%.This is a problem when monitoring tasks and trying to get a rough estimate how long ...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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