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adding back CLOSE_WRITE to watchfolder and mmwatch

as a customer , we need to get informed , when a file gets closed, but only, if the file was changed ... we are not interessted on CLOSEs , when the file content was not changed. To sort out millions of false positives of thise unchanged CLOSE cal...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Disable NFS export

When having maintenance on larger file systems, it's advisable to first do a clean shutdown, and then enable maintenance mode with mmchfs --maintenance-mode to avoid anyone mounting or processes messing with the file system. This is quite problema...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Make CSI upgrade easier for disconnected clusters

At the present time when you want to upgrade spectrum scale's CSI there's no clear documentation: I go to the target version section and then to the 'upgrade' part. But there's nothing written for a disconnected cluster and for RHEL servers. To ha...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Detection of unbalanced metrics for spectrum virtualize machine

example 1In spectrum virtualize family , IO group is made of two nodes.Usually the metrics of those two nodes should be about similar, if two nodes (of the same IO group) are showing very different value for same metric this may be the sign for a ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Support adding space by extending existing luns to vSnap server

vSnap server should be able to have it storage luns extended. Typically, we would make 4 luns of 4 Tb each available to a vSnap server. When it needs to be extended, we just increase the existing luns by 1 or 2 Tb each.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Option to disable security notifications

We need an option to disable "security notifications" entirely.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Enhance Spectrum Protect CMS feature

Starting 8.1.13 baclient / OC version, CMS is integrated with the baclient code. Right now, only part of the relevant baclient logs for investigations are being reported. It could be very helpful for “remote” diagnostics that the CMS is able to gr...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Reporting capacity in a clustered environment is challenge.

Today we have an option to select several hosts and click merge host but this is a timing consuming, manual process in a large shop. We need a better option to recognize hosts that are in a clustered relationship. Looking at hosts that can see the...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

NDMP - NAS backups - Encrypted communications with TLS 1.2/3

Required to secure communications in line with all other client server operations
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

TSM_Daily_Operations_Report not showing daily logical backup size

TSM_Daily_Operations_Report not showing daily logical backup size on TSM Operation Report. on page nameData Protection CLIENT BACKUPS WITH THE MOST DATA Over the past 24 hSize0.0 B
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration