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    Support NFSv4.2 server-side COPY offload in IBM Storage Scale CES NFS

    IBM Storage Scale CES NFS currently returns NFS4ERR_NOTSUPP when an NFSv4.2 client issues the COPY operation. IBM support has confirmed that this operation is not currently supported. We request support for the NFSv4.2 server-side COPY operation b...
    about 16 hours ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    Support ACME Protocol for Automated Certificate Management on FlashSystem and Storage Virtualize (TPI Enabled)

    Currently, when Two-Person Integrity (TPI) is enabled on IBM FlashSystem and Storage Virtualize systems, the automated rotation of security certificates via Ansible or other automation tools is restricted or blocked due to the mandatory dual-autho...
    8 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

    Support OS configured sssd/PAM using FreeIPA/Redhat IDM on CES Nodes as an Austhentication Service including Kerberos Netgroups for sharing same NFS V4 and SMB Shares

    Hi Today Storage Scale does not support FreeIPA/Redhat IDM as a valid supported Authentication Service.  As My customer standard operating system uses PAM/sssd based user/group authentication all linux user access/authorization on CES nodes, ...
    2 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Trigger an alarm if unstable/unreliable input power is detected.

    A stable power environment is crucial for a storage system, and providing this is clearly out of scope of the storage system itself. Nevertheless, it would be a big benefit to provide a warning mechanism if an unreliable power environment is detec...
    5 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    No follow up email after a data collector upgrade issue gets autofixed

    Clients have notified me that that they are confused, when they receive an email for a failed data collector upgrade and they start investigating why this has happened. At the same time, it appears that the issue is autoxed and the collected ...
    about 15 hours ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    CNSA support for ARM64 openshift worker

    we plan to integrate new GPU Worker in Openshift. New GPU Server like Nvidia Vera will be based on ARM Architecture (AARCH64).That architecture is supported by Spectrum Scale, but currently not in the support matrix for CNSA at openshift.For Plani...
    about 18 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enhance the CSM SNMP notification content

    After we configured SNMP notifications in CSM, the customer successfully received the notifications. However, the notification content does not clearly indicate which object in CSM had a status change or what the new status is.
    1 day ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    We encounter SGC backup capacity issue with production volumes due to some unexpected spike from application users. So we receive bunch of we used to receive IWNR2830E alert and email notification. There shld be a parm to limit this.

    Failure action is going to be expand multiplier and expire unrecoverable backup copies. So it going to be same for one backup failure alert or bunch of failue. So we Request for Enhancement (RFE) to IBM development for capabilities such as alert t...
    1 day ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Add a supported stale-mount state reconciliation/reset mechanism to IBM Storage Archive SDE for Windows

    IBM Storage Archive Single Drive Edition for Windows should provide a supported mechanism to reconcile or reset its persisted drive/mount state after a tape drive temporarily disappears and is later re-enumerated. A reproducible failure mode exist...
    2 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted
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    Enabling parallel I/O when migrating date from file-pool to tape-pool due to synchronous sequential write

    With a traditional Storage Protect implementation with backup to file-pool the migragtion from file-pool to tape-pool is limited on disk latency to reach optimized a high throuhgput on tape. For an example with a disc latency of 2ms you can reach ...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

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