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Simplify addition of "ephemeral" native clients

To add a client to a Spectrum Scale cluster requires that both the client node is booted and for the administrator to run administrative commands on an admin node. In a virtualised environment where clients are elasticly created, this is difficult...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Messages Without Message IDs

A product family such as IBM Spectrum Protect has a great many components, each of which can have hundreds or even thousands of messages. With so many messages, the customer will need some method to find explanations. In general, many messages are...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

RFE for GPFS - requirement for a non root user to be able to run their scripts under GPFS without errors / SELinux related

It seems like there is a limitation in GPFS that a non-root user may not modify extended attributes of a file unless they are in the "user" namespace.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Archive option for TSM for VE long term

Hi to keeping Long-term data retention with Virtual Machine, the listed solution is recomended from IBM.http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21651348However this solution has caveats such as not capable to expire exports very long run ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

BA/API client: Call 'vssadmin list writers' only when necessary

Spectrum Protect Client (BA/API) V8.1.0.0 on Windows unconditionally calls 'vssadmin list writers'.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect server activity log to show detailed file restore and tape volume.

Hi Team, As a requirement for auditing we would like to have the server actlog show the file restore in detail and the tape volume it was restored. At the moment we have to restore from the client using restore/pick option and screen shot to...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Functionality already exists

SPP BUG - Unable to remove a Schedule from a Report

After defining a schedule on a report, the schedule cannot be removed. If you 'untick' the schedule there is no option to click 'Save'. For custom reports, the workaround is the delete the report and start again, but for the default reports there ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Re-instate prereq check script in 7.1 install

In the 6.3 installation tar file there was a pre-req check script. This is no longer available in 7.1. please re-instate the functionality
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support Debian 9 with ISS 4 and 5

Support Spectrum Scale on Debian 8 and later for ISS 4.2.3 and 5.0.0 and later.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

TSM aware of VTLs features (dedup and replication)

Copying client data using node replication requires a lot of bandwidth and many customers don´t want to use TSM dedup since they already have dedup atVTL levels (protectier and datadomain). It would be great if TSM server could be aware of VTL rep...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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