IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

Add a new idea Subscribe
Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 9, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

LDAP enhancements related to RFC2307 mappings on Spectrum Scale/GPFS Windows

Currently, GPFS Windows has functional, performance, and HA limitations related to the LDAP AD lookup. The details are documented in IBM Case Number: TS005919437.

https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002YlqdkAAB/kosmos-gpfs-windows-filesystem-access-is-very-slow?language=en_US

In summary, this RFE is for the following:

1. Provide a configuration parameter to disable RFC2307 lookups (instead for trying a bad IP address value or hostname to ldapConnectionHostName).

2. Provide a configurable sleep-interval parameter for WinSecCacheUpdaterThread.

3. Provide a configurable time-out parameter to be passed to ldap_connect.

4. Provide/support a space separated list of hostnames for ldapConnectionHostName. Basically allow HostName semantics as per ldap_init() documentation.

5. Caching/reusing connections to LDAP servers (instead of calling ldap_init + ldap_connect everytime) during lookup.

6. Add the GPFS Windows lookup semantics (as detailed in the Case) to the Spectrum Scale documentation.

7. Special GPFS command to pre-populate the SID/UIG/GID mapping-cache from the AD/DC during mmstartup or at later stage on GPFS Windows node (mmadpopulate <SID-all>).

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 29, 2021

    Requested capability is not in the Sepctrum Scale Roadmap in the foreseeable future

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.