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Backup of subdirectories within Windows CIFS SHARES recursively processed despite of deactivation with dsmc incr subdir=no

In spite of setting the option subdir=no for incremental file backup, mounted CIFS Shares on Windows File Server will be processed recursively. The reason for this behaviour is caused by an unsuccessful execution of the NetShareGetInfo function wi...

almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect

7 VOTE

Security: Spectrum Scale read-only access on client nodes

We would like to distribute software using a Spectrum Scale filesystem to compute nodes in an HPC environment but want to make sure malicous users cannot modify files which would enable them to spread malware. In NFS environments this can be estab...

over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

8 VOTE

Add equivalent of "issue message" command to DSMC, so it will be logged on client as well

Recently I answered an RFP question regarding different automation techniques, including the use of Issue Message dsmadmc command to send a message to the server activity log. I realized that this functionality would be enhanced if we could issue ...

over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

13 VOTE

Export operations increased to 256kB blocksize

IBM labs has detected Export operations blocksize to be a performance bottleneck.All other tape operations are said to use 256kB blocksize whilst Export operations use 32kB blocksize. The request is to start using 256kB blocksize for Export operat...

over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

7 VOTE

Support for Grouping protocol nodes for separate workloads

Client would like the ability to group Protocol nodes for specific uses rather than having every protocol sharing every export.

over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

6 VOTE

starting SLA dialog not enough information

When you manually start an SLA, a "Start Options" dialog box pops up and you have to click "OK" to start the SLA, it would be nice if you can see which SLA (the name of the SLA) you are starting... All you see is the words "SLA Policy" and a combo...

almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

5 VOTE

Spectrum Protect for HADOOP File System

There is a need for Spectrum Protect to protect Hadoop file system

almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

4 VOTE

Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Scale compatibility

Customer would like to avoid having to use SKIPACLUPDATECHECK And UPDATECTIME attributes in Spectrum Protect when backing up Spectrum Scale data

almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

2 VOTE

Password Expiration Warning

Having a warning that the password used to log into the storage would alert users in advance and could proactively manage their passwords.

almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

2 VOTE

Test function for callhome setting

We have callhome function, but there is no test button that customer can test communication between their system and callhome server.

almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

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