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Spectrum Scale, dosen't access to the secondary Active Directory(AD), in spite of AD is Active-Active redundant configuration

*Re-Submitted from ID:134412Please cancel the request of 134412. We are facing to the following situation and our client strongly request to resolve this issue as soon as possible. We think that the function of SS about keeping session with AD sho...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Support for CSVFS

We are using spectrum protect backup software to backup windows environments, one of the requirement from business side to backup CSVFS file system, which is not supported yet.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

HDFS support for scanning

Allow Spectrum Discover to scan hdfs data lake environments to identify data candidates for our use cases (AI, governance, data heat).
about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

GUI for Spectrum Scale MMBACKUP function requested from MD Anderson Cancer Center

Spectrum Scale new RFE being pursued by Tram, Gabe, Jonathan and Raul, via Scale Case TS002279140 and Crit Sit AB1835.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

Signing of Spectrum scale modules

Requesting signing of spectrum scale V5 and higher, reason when installing gpfs on SuSE SLES 15 SP1 cluster fail to be active due to, tracedev.ko module not signed. Latest SLES 15 has a security feature secure boot, that deny unsigned modules to b...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Provide efficient read-only file-level snapshots

Today, mmclone can be used to effectively provide a read-only snapshot of a single file (mv origfile snapfile ; mmclone snap snapfile ; mmclone copy snapfile origfile). But to clean up the snapshot when it is no longer needed requires mmclone spli...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Improve SPP handling of ICOS retention Vaults

IBM SPP handling of IBM COS Retention Vaults does not guarantee protection of all objects referred in full backups. Offloading or copying to IBM COS retention vaults is done to offer "Cyber Resiliency" for a certain amount of defined time, for exa...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

RestAPI to be able to set priority verification for a tape volume for Media Verification.

Requestion the ability to set priority verification on a tape volume via the Rest API.
about 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Confusing status message 'mmlspdisk'

My Client submits the following:After carrier release the status is even more confusing [DIARSS root@ems1-xcat ~]# mmlspdisk all --not-okpdisk: replacementPriority = 6.77 name = "e1d2s02" device = "//essio32.ib.rsshpc1/dev/sdpe(notEnabled/closed),...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Load Balance of TSM for VE Datamovers

When you have 1000's of Virtual Machines and a daily changes in your environment, it get's really hard to get a good a easy overview which Datamover that has less load. It should be good if the datamovers could talk to each other and spread the wo...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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