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Command to move/migrate data from legacy storage pool to container pool

With the release of 7.1.3 and the new container pools there is currently no command that will let you migrate data from a legacy storage pool to the new container pool. This makes it much more complicated for us as we have to support multiple stor...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Forcing user and group IDs on SMB shares

With cross protocol access to a share, Unix users creating files with Spectrum Scale or NFS clients are using IDs that might not be known to the Active Directory or LDAP servers if a centralised external ID mapping is not in place or does not cove...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Windows Server 2019 Core

Exchange 2019 is supported on Windows Server 2019 Server Core. We need support for backup/restore on this platform Microsoft is pushing Windows Server 2019 Server Core as the OS of choice for Exchange 2019. On https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/e...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Delivered

XLS output from scheduled VM Backup history report

Scheduled report which is sending by e-mail is not possible to generate it in XLS format. It is normally possible to chose between xls and pdf format by instant (not scheduled) report run only.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

CSM - add message about completion of background copy ( Flashcopy, SGC recovery)

Currently, after submit of Flashcopy or SGC recovery with background copy - in CSM session messages is logged only submit of this command. Background copy continues, it is indicated in the CSM GUI in session details ( ....copy still continues...) ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Report of unprotected VMs

Dashboard and "Protected VMs" report on which VMs are protected and it also reports on number of unprotected VMs but not which VMs are unprotected.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

RX/TX values for FC sfp

In order to know if there is problem with the sfp RX/TX values - we must submit snap to the support , it will be much easy for customer to review the SAN env if there was command/GUI option to show it.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

manually set license threshold to prevent CMMVC6372W events in additional products

Some thresholds in Spectrum Virtualize and Storwize products are system-wide settings that can not be changed. These may influence additional products and lead to malfunctions or misinterpretations in these products. If you could adjust these valu...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Add support for SSL for SKLM to library communications

We've had a request from our risk team to ensure all network communication is done via SSL / TLS1.2Currently only the TS3310 and TS4300 support using SSL for SKLM.We would like the same feature on the TS3500 and TS4500 tape libraries
over 5 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

Prevent transparent recall over NFS

With Spectrum Scale CES SMB there is an SMB option to prevent recalls of migrated files triggered via SMB (option gpfs:recall=no)We would like to have this option for CES NFS as well, preventing users accessing the space managed file system over N...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Delivered

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