<html><body><p><font size="2">For the benefit of those on digest, here's Carl's list again in plain text (I hope). I have also notified our documentation team that this is of great interest to clients, so they are aware.</font><br>
<ul><font size="2">In the 4.2.3 draft documentation, the -y option information has been added to a number of commands:</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#2F2F2F">-Y option</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#2F2F2F">Added the -Y option to the following commands: </font><br><br><font size="2" color="#2F2F2F">mmblock mmhealth mmlsfileset mmlsnodeclass mmnetverify</font><br><font size="2" color="#2F2F2F">mmcloudgateway mmkeyserv mmlsfs mmlsnsd mmnfs</font><br><font size="2" color="#2F2F2F">mmdf mmlscluster mmlslicense mmlspolicy mmrepquota</font><br><font size="2" color="#2F2F2F">mmdiag mmlsconfig mmlsmgr mmlsquota mmsmb</font><br><font size="2" color="#2F2F2F">mmgetstate mmlsdisk mmlsmount mmlssnapshot mmuserauth</font></ul><br><br><font size="2">Alecia A. Ramsay, PMP®</font><font size="2"><br>Program Manager, New Technology Introduction</font><br><font size="2">IBM Systems - Storage</font><br><font size="2">aleciarm@us.ibm.com</font><br><font size="2">work: 919-435-6494; mobile: 651-260-4928</font><br><a href="http://ibm.biz/NewTechnologyIntroduction" target="_blank"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">http://ibm.biz/NewTechnologyIntroduction</font></u></a><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=8FBB0A62DFCD36D28f9e8a93df938690918c8FB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Carl Zetie---03/28/2017 01:03:03 PM---I checked the draft documentation for 4.2.3, and here is the "><font size="2" color="#424282">Carl Zetie---03/28/2017 01:03:03 PM---I checked the draft documentation for 4.2.3, and here is the list of what is planned.</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">Carl Zetie/Fairfax/IBM@IBMUS</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">03/28/2017 01:03 PM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">Re: [gpfsug-discuss] -Y option for many commands, precious few officially!</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Sent by: </font><font size="2">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><br><font face="Arial">I checked the </font><b><font face="Arial">draft</font></b><font face="Arial"> documentation for 4.2.3, and here is the list of what is planned.</font><br><font face="Arial"> </font><br><font face="Arial">As usual -- please remember this is an Intention not a commitment, and subject to change between now and the release.</font><br><font face="Arial"> </font><br><font face="Arial">regards,<br>Carl</font><br><font face="Arial"> </font><br><font face="Arial">-Y option</font><ul><ul><font face="Arial">Added the -Y option to the following commands: </font><table id="soa__table_nyc_4zq_gz" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr valign="top"><td id="vcc_sp_td_374" width="111" valign="middle">mmblock</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_376" width="77" valign="middle">mmhealth</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_378" width="79" valign="middle">mmlsfileset</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_380" width="96" valign="middle">mmlsnodeclass</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_382" width="81" valign="middle">mmnetverify</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td id="vcc_sp_td_385" width="111" valign="middle">mmcloudgateway</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_387" width="77" valign="middle">mmkeyserv</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_389" width="79" valign="middle">mmlsfs</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_391" width="96" valign="middle">mmlsnsd</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_393" width="81" valign="middle">mmnfs</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td id="vcc_sp_td_396" width="111" valign="middle">mmdf</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_398" width="77" valign="middle">mmlscluster</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_400" width="79" valign="middle">mmlslicense</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_402" width="96" valign="middle">mmlspolicy</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_404" width="81" valign="middle">mmrepquota</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td id="vcc_sp_td_407" width="111" valign="middle">mmdiag</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_409" width="77" valign="middle">mmlsconfig</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_411" width="79" valign="middle">mmlsmgr</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_413" width="96" valign="middle">mmlsquota</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_415" width="81" valign="middle">mmsmb</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td id="vcc_sp_td_418" width="111" valign="middle">mmgetstate</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_420" width="77" valign="middle">mmlsdisk</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_422" width="79" valign="middle">mmlsmount</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_424" width="96" valign="middle">mmlssnapshot</td><td id="vcc_sp_td_426" width="81" valign="middle">mmuserauth</td></tr></table></ul></ul><font face="Arial"> </font><br><font face="Arial"><br>Carl Zetie<br>Offering Manager for Spectrum Scale, IBM<br>carlz@us.ibm.com</font><br><font face="Arial"> </font><br><font face="Arial"> </font><br><font face="Arial">----- Original message -----<br>From: gpfsug-discuss-request@spectrumscale.org<br>Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org<br>To: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<br>Cc:<br>Subject: gpfsug-discuss Digest, Vol 62, Issue 70<br>Date: Tue, Mar 28, 2017 12:38 PM<br> </font><br><tt><font size="2">Send gpfsug-discuss mailing list submissions to<br>gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit</font></tt><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF"><br></font></u></tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" target="_blank"><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</font></u></tt></a><tt><font size="2"><br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br>gpfsug-discuss-request@spectrumscale.org<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br>gpfsug-discuss-owner@spectrumscale.org<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of gpfsug-discuss digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Re: -Y option for many commands, precious few officially!<br> (Luis Bolinches)<br> 2. Re: -Y option for many commands, precious few officially!<br> (Jonathon A Anderson)<br> 3. Re: -Y option for many commands, precious few officially!<br> (Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services))<br> 4. Re: -Y option for many commands, precious few officially!<br> (Jonathon A Anderson)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:22:04 +0000<br>From: "Luis Bolinches" <luis.bolinches@fi.ibm.com><br>To: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<br>Cc: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<br>Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] -Y option for many commands, precious<br>few officially!<br>Message-ID:<br><OF1049606E.44BBC8FA-ON002580F1.0059D11B-002580F1.0059E971@notes.na.collabserv.com><br><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <</font></tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss/attachments/20170328/694119bd/attachment-0001.html" target="_blank"><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss/attachments/20170328/694119bd/attachment-0001.html</font></u></tt></a><tt><font size="2">><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:24:19 +0000<br>From: Jonathon A Anderson <jonathon.anderson@colorado.edu><br>To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] -Y option for many commands, precious<br>few officially!<br>Message-ID: <99B1AC2E-91B4-4A7F-B270-8FDDC49918EA@colorado.edu><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>Looks great. I look forward to its maturity.<br><br>~jonathon<br><br><br>On 3/28/17, 10:22 AM, "gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org on behalf of Luis Bolinches" <gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org on behalf of luis.bolinches@fi.ibm.com> wrote:<br><br> Hi<br> <br> While I understand the frustration of tiem that could be used otherwise. depending of what you are plannig with script wrapping I would recommend you seriously take a look to the REST API<br> <br> </font></tt><a href="http://files.gpfsug.org/presentations/2017/Ehningen/23_-_SSUG17DE_-_Alexander_Wolf-Reber_-_Spectrum_Scale_ReST_API.pdf" target="_blank"><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">http://files.gpfsug.org/presentations/2017/Ehningen/23_-_SSUG17DE_-_Alexander_Wolf-Reber_-_Spectrum_Scale_ReST_API.pdf</font></u></tt></a><tt><font size="2"><br> <br> --<br> Yst?v?llisin terveisin / Kind regards / Saludos cordiales / Salutations<br> <br> Luis Bolinches<br> Lab Services<br> </font></tt><a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/services/labservices" target="_blank"><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/services/labservices</font></u></tt></a><tt><font size="2">/<br> <br> IBM Laajalahdentie 23 (main Entrance) Helsinki, 00330 Finland<br> Phone: +358 503112585<br> <br> "If you continually give you will continually have." Anonymous<br> <br> <br> <br> ----- Original message -----<br> From: Jonathon A Anderson <jonathon.anderson@colorado.edu><br> Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org<br> To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br> Cc:<br> Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] -Y option for many commands, precious few officially!<br> Date: Tue, Mar 28, 2017 7:17 PM<br> <br> I had a bit of a run-in with a gpfs developer at a conference once when I complained about how command output changes frequently, breaking customer scripts. He was confused why we weren?t<br> using `-Y`, and didn?t believe me that it?s simply not documented anywhere!<br> <br> `-Y` output is essential for interfacing programmatically with GPFS, and I don?t understand why it?s not mentioned in any of the guides or manpages. (Though apparently, according to this thead, it?s since appeared in some newer manpages.)<br> <br> ~jonathon<br> <br> <br> On 3/28/17, 10:14 AM, "gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org on behalf of Marc A Kaplan" <gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org on behalf of makaplan@us.ibm.com> wrote:<br> <br> Just looking/scanning the latest (4.2.2) Spectrum Scale Command (and Programming) Reference I only found a few commands that officially are documented as supporting a -Y option: mmnfs, mmsmb, mmuserauth.<br> <br> But as many of you have discovered, -Y is accepted and yields "interesting" output for many of the mmXXXX commands. <br> Moreover the output *seems to* have easily discernible patterns that can be parsed by simple programs.<br> <br> I believe there is no guarantee that the exact command output formats will not change from release to release, so, as a practical matter, if you're going to parse command output, you're probably better off parsing the -Y output,<br> even if that is not officially supported. <br> <br> <br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br> gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br> </font></tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" target="_blank"><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</font></u></tt></a><tt><font size="2"><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Ellei edell? ole toisin mainittu: / Unless stated otherwise above:<br> Oy IBM Finland Ab<br> PL 265, 00101 Helsinki, Finland<br> Business ID, Y-tunnus: 0195876-3<br> Registered in Finland<br> <br> <br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:37:12 +0000<br>From: "Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)"<br><S.J.Thompson@bham.ac.uk><br>To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] -Y option for many commands, precious<br>few officially!<br>Message-ID: <D5004FA9.399EC%s.j.thompson@bham.ac.uk><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>I thought the header rows defined what the format of the output was. Its a bit weird as there can be multiple header rows for different content rows ...<br><br>Simon<br><br>From: <gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org<</font></tt><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org" target="_blank"><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</font></u></tt></a><tt><font size="2">>> on behalf of Marc A Kaplan <makaplan@us.ibm.com<</font></tt><a href="mailto:makaplan@us.ibm.com" target="_blank"><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">mailto:makaplan@us.ibm.com</font></u></tt></a><tt><font size="2">>><br>Reply-To: "gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<</font></tt><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" target="_blank"><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</font></u></tt></a><tt><font size="2">>" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<</font></tt><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" target="_blank"><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</font></u></tt></a><tt><font size="2">>><br>Date: Tuesday, 28 March 2017 at 17:14<br>To: "gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<</font></tt><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" target="_blank"><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</font></u></tt></a><tt><font size="2">>" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<</font></tt><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" target="_blank"><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</font></u></tt></a><tt><font size="2">>><br>Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] -Y option for many commands, precious few officially!<br><br>Just looking/scanning the latest (4.2.2) Spectrum Scale Command (and Programming) Reference I only found a few commands that officially are documented as supporting a -Y option: mmnfs, mmsmb, mmuserauth.<br><br>But as many of you have discovered, -Y is accepted and yields "interesting" output for many of the mmXXXX commands.<br>Moreover the output *seems to* have easily discernible patterns that can be parsed by simple programs.<br><br>I believe there is no guarantee that the exact command output formats will not change from release to release, so, as a practical matter, if you're going to parse command output, you're probably better off parsing the -Y output, even if that is not officially supported.<br><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <</font></tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss/attachments/20170328/2c551c41/attachment-0001.html" target="_blank"><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss/attachments/20170328/2c551c41/attachment-0001.html</font></u></tt></a><tt><font size="2">><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:37:47 +0000<br>From: Jonathon A Anderson <jonathon.anderson@colorado.edu><br>To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] -Y option for many commands, precious<br>few officially!<br>Message-ID: <DEB4F27D-8814-4514-AC65-D5DA4F55178B@colorado.edu><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>Sure; but that only helps if you know the flag even exists.<br><br>~jonathon<br><br><br>On 3/28/17, 10:37 AM, "gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org on behalf of Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)" <gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org on behalf of S.J.Thompson@bham.ac.uk> wrote:<br><br> I thought the header rows defined what the format of the output was. Its a bit weird as there can be multiple header rows for different content rows ...<br> <br> <br> Simon<br> <br> <br> From: <gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org> on behalf of Marc A Kaplan <makaplan@us.ibm.com><br> Reply-To: "gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br> Date: Tuesday, 28 March 2017 at 17:14<br> To: "gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br> Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] -Y option for many commands, precious few officially!<br> <br> <br> <br> Just looking/scanning the latest (4.2.2) Spectrum Scale Command (and Programming) Reference I only found a few commands that officially are documented as supporting a -Y option: mmnfs, mmsmb, mmuserauth.<br> <br> But as many of you have discovered, -Y is accepted and yields "interesting" output for many of the mmXXXX commands. <br> Moreover the output *seems to* have easily discernible patterns that can be parsed by simple programs.<br> <br> I believe there is no guarantee that the exact command output formats will not change from release to release, so, as a practical matter, if you're going to parse command output, you're probably better off parsing the -Y output,<br> even if that is not officially supported. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org</font></tt><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF"><br></font></u></tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" target="_blank"><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</font></u></tt></a><tt><font size="2"><br><br><br>End of gpfsug-discuss Digest, Vol 62, Issue 70<br>**********************************************</font></tt><font face="Arial"><br> </font><br><font face="Arial"> </font><br><tt><font size="2">_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br></font></tt><tt><font size="2"><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></font></tt><tt><font size="2"><br></font></tt><br><br><BR>
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