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Moving a node to another domain should not remove it from the backup schedule automatically.

Logically the command to move the node to another domain should have failed until I removed the node from the current backup schedule as the domain is tied to the schedule. Or I would expect a message prompting to continue informing me that the no...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Is a defect

Ganesha - Event 1 could not be processed for fd 5 rc I/O error , report the client that abuse the Ganesha, monitor that error and have action

When Ganesha server hit this error - the NFS server just hang , there is no ip failover, or restart of the NFS server: epoch 001103c9 : gpfs.ganesha.nfsd-1492239[fsal_up_0.48] GPFSFSAL_UP_Thread :FSAL_UP :WARN :Event 1 could not be processed for f...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Is a defect

SpVirt GUI: option to set the refresh period of webpages

gui : option to set the refresh period of webpages, as it is automatic now and rather short.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Is a defect

SI Pro and Hitachi VSP FICON Adapters

For Hitachi VSP G1500, G1000, and 5500 storage, SI/SI Pro only reports on Fibre Channel adapters that are installed in the system. It does not properly reflect the FICON adapters / ports installed in the system. If you go to Properties -> Confi...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Is a defect

RC=12 is not required for successful processing.

When the IBM Spectrum Protect backup/archive client detects that a self-signed digital certificate has expired, the expiration date is updated, but RC=12 is returned and "ANS1579E" is recorded.The process is successful and I would like RC=0 to be ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect

Have Spectrum CDM check UUID of the device before removal, thus avoiding the likelyhood of the wrond device being removed

When CDM creates its cleanup data for removing a copy it records the device name it used when the disks were added, for example, /dev/sdn. These device names are not persistent and as CDM does a "echo 1 > /bin/sys/block/sdn/device/delete" to re...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

SVC and Storwize Machine Location field schould support special characters

In the GUI of the SVC / Storwize / FS systems (exception FS900) you can only use alphanumeric characters. Special characters are only possible on the command line. This should be adjusted on the GUI.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

improve flexibility of Spectrum Protect Plus SLA association with Vcenter folders and vms

present SPP design limitation don't well support SLA association with Vcenter folders and vms simultaneously. the association operations on folders and vm under same folder may cause VM failed to be associated with expected SLA as expected. custom...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Is a defect

Failed mount due to selected MC criteria should not require looking up diagnostic codes

Note that this is tied to TS003826059 but the PMR field doesn't accept that value. Not sure where I need to go to submit an RFE for the RFE site to accept a case number rather than a PMR number:) We had a VTS MC specification that did not have the...
almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Is a defect

Journal Based Backup Stall

In this case, the journal database was not updating and so backups became stale until a Full Incremental was run. This request is for a monitoring alert for when the journal db does not receive any updates, perhaps in the last 24 hours.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Is a defect

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