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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 25, 2016

More Groups in Spectrum Scale for AIX

Currently under Spectrum Scale Server for AIX 4.2.x the products supports only 128 AIX Groups but in all other OS much more like Windows and Linux. We Need urgently the support of more Group id's

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    Sep 30, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - Product functionality

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - Technical Foundation

  • Guest
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    May 4, 2018

    Delivered in 2H2018

  • Guest
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    Apr 11, 2017

    Planned for 2H2018.

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  • Guest
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    Feb 9, 2017

    We are evaluating this request.

  • Guest
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    Jan 24, 2017

    We are evaluating this request

  • Guest
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    Nov 29, 2016

    Hello
    the reason why we need a larger number of group id in Spectrum Scale is the following:


    Our customer is using SAS Institute Software. Because of missing Security function within the application programs they using groups for all people accessing the data
    stored in the Spectrum Scale file systems based on their rights for reading only and/or updating the data. Because we are big financial institute with insurance also
    we have a lot of customers accessing the data and of course a lot of projects. So each project is one group id and we are now at the limit of 128 groups = projects
    and we need more. This limitation is only in Spectrum Scale on AIX and not under other operating systems like Windows and Linux.