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multiple backup sessions per FS

It would be interesting to be able to backup a single big FS with multiple backup sessions without the need to define VirtualMountpoints ( besides virtualmountpoints is not available on windows ).If the DSMC could automatically scan the directory ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 7 Not under consideration

Node custom information user field

A 'custom information' field is desirable where we could input information in any format we as a user wish. There is no custom field to use for node details. Only 'Contact' field is available and it is not sufficient.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

vdisk default caching IOgrp assignment

Hi, While creating vdisk, Caching IOGRP assignment is automatic in a cluster containing more than 1 IOgrp. e.g. When vdisk is created on pool1 located on IOG1, its caching IOgrp by default should go to IOG1 maintaing local affinity in order to avo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Full Copy

By default backup jobs create the first copy as a full copy on thin volumes. Being a full copy, the 80% threshold set as a warning value is always exceeded, generating emails and alarm events. Is it possible to set by default the value to 0 (disab...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Allow mmrepquota -j to filter fileset(s)

The synopsis of mmrepquota looks like this: Synopsis mmrepquota [-u] [-g] [-e] [-n] [-v] [--block-size {BlockSize | auto} | -Y] {-a | Device:Fileset ...} or mmrepquota-j [-e] [-q] [-n] [-v] [-t] [--block-size {BlockSize | auto}] {-a | Device...} o...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Seamlessy convert subtree into (independent) fileset

add a command to convert a subtree to an independent fileset seamlessly (without interrupting access for users) and - as a bonus - vice-versa
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Integrate RELP support in FlashSystem

RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in FlashSystem would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Allow remote mount for fileset in different paths on the remote cluster to mou

With the new functionality of remote mount controlled by fileset, it gives the opportunity to grant or deny access to different filesets within the same file system. Although the functionality is deployed on the owning cluster, at the remote clust...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Powershell interface to dsmc and dsmadmc

Powershell is becoming the scripting language of choice for windows. It is difficult to call existing dsmc and dsmadmc command line tools from powershell and reasonably process the output. Powershell has an object pipeline model and file output do...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to deploy/update Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center

Update of Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center is not possible.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration