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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...
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NFS Ganesha to 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...
11 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CES S3 - S3 Glacier for Storage Protect managed tape libraries

It seems the feature has been implemented in NooBaa, but Storage Scale still does not officially support the S3 Glacier feature. Without S3 Glacier support, S3 users have no idea that their data has been migrated. This creates challenges for syste...
12 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Future consideration

Display write-protect status of a cartridge in the UI and API

It would be a really useful feature to be able to see at a glance which tapes in the library currently have their write-protect switch turned on.
14 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

Add information about the using ciphers for TS7700 and provide a possibility to exclude dedicate ciphers

The security needs in companies are very different. Sometimes it is necessary to know what kind of chiphers the TS77xx used.Therefor it would be good to have a display for the possible and used ciphers.Add on it would be good to have a possibility...
18 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

CES S3 - subnet restrictions in S3 bucket policies

One of our ESS clusters stores highly sensitive data for around two thousand projects that needs to be kept strictly separate between projects, so we neeed the possibility to add subnet-requirements to buckets for proper data separation, like we c...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add a SYSLOG option for console logs

In addition to having the option to view the console logs in the user interface add an option to offload to a syslog server similar to hardware platforms (DS8, VTS, etc).
about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Support for Microsoft Server 2025 - WinGet

The IBM Storage Protect BA Client for Windows uses a complex installation process. spinstall.exe handles C++ package installation, language-specific MST files, and a file-by-file structure. This creates problems for mass deployment on Windows Serv...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

NFS Ganesha should Support GPFS extended Attributes

Storage Scale (GPFS) does support extended attributes for the users like: > getfattr -d stephan.txt > md5sum stephan.txt 041ad89a0dc0772f384f8d1bf4ddff4b stephan.txt > setfattr -n user.md5 -v 041ad89a0dc0772f384f8d1bf4ddff4b stephan.txt &...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Automatically assign cartridges to volser range instead of keeping them only in VIO

Currently (1.11 firmware level) only 255 cartridges can be inserted in the library without running checkin libvol/label libvol as they fill up the VIO slots of the library.As we often add a batch of a few thousands to increase capacity, this alway...
about 2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?

A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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