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Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 23, 2017

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Spectrum Scale Needs to Accommodate more than 128 GPFS Max Groups per UserID with AIX 7.1

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Currently there is a limitation of MAX groups per user what are supported by current GPFS on AIX 7.1
Long time ago AIX 7.1 (~2010) did increase maximum of groups per user up to 2048 where GPFS keep support to only first 128 groups ( like old AIX 6.1). ( in our GPFS functional testing we did reproduce this issue)
Based on the web research -> others ( financial institution using SAS/GPFS) have or are expected to have very similar requirements “to new required granular LAM access model).
With SAS data protection and access management model we went over 400 user groups to control different level access to data or functions. There are many users who today exceeded a limit of 128 AD/LDAP groups per one UID.

What will take to prioritize and expedite the development request to increase AIX GPFS support up to full level of AIX 7.1 OS ( GPFS max groups per user from 128->2048)? Client would likely be willing to compromise to 500-1000 max groups per user-ID range, if that makes this request easier to implement.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     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 - V4 Product functionality

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 6, 2018

    Delivered in 5.0 and backported to 4.2.x stream

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 25, 2017

    Note that this is a duplicate of RFE 97777. However I am leaving both open for now for ease of tracking by the two accounts.

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