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enhanced charging to support compressed/uncompress volume

Today:- It is possible to measure data on different levels on the TSM Server- SELECT * FROM FILESPACES Can be used to see the allocated and used space on filesystems on the clients But does not give correct results on databases, as both CAPACITY a...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

Enhance Installer Toolkit to support update keberized hdfs-scale cluster

We use scale 5.1.3.0 to update our scale hdfs-transparency cluster to update this Version from 5.1.2.2. During the ./spectrumscale upgrade precheck we see a error:Both namenodes are in stand by state, but the haaadmin cmd -getAllServiceState list ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Include and Exclude files and disks

A customer would like to have an option where they can include and exclude file and disks from backup. It should be easily available via GUI.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

SVC to FS9200 NDVM (Non-Disruptive Volume Move)

At GTS, we have a strategy to deploy FS9200s in their respective islands. We are not deploying FS9200s with front-ended SVCs. The SVC instances exist in tens of thousands in the field. Most of the times the migration requires outage for a server d...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Increase number of Host mappings

More than 20.000 host mappings per cluster are required.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize GUI doesn't retain a sufficient amount of performance data

The on-box performance monitor for Spectrum Virtualize only maintains 5 minutes worth of performance data. Since performance tests or issues can last longer than 5 minutes, this limits the ability to do instant analysis. Additionally, there can be...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Copy Services Manager Needs a 'run once' scheduling option

CSM v6.2.8 currently provides the following scheduling options:1. Running a task at an interval of 0.5-144 hoursor 2. Running a task at a set time on any number of days each weekor3. No Schedule I wish to setup a task, pick a 4th option 'run once'...
about 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

DP for Exchange GUI behaviour

We would like to have a few improvements in the DP for Exchange GUI.How the GUI bahaves during restore operations.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Delivered

IBM Spectrum Protect Client Encryption with IBM Spectrum Scale

Spectrum Protect backup encryption using include.Encrypt for Spectrum Scale client is not working due to unrecognized format "Include Encrypt". Error:mmbackup does not recognize this include rule format: Include Encrypt. The tsbackup33 perl script...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Make mmhealth more customizable

Right now, only TIPS events can be hidden. We would like that this can be extended for other events or states, eg. when a ccr quorum node is down for maintenance, we can disable the ccr_quorum_nodes_warn temporary to keep the nodes healthy so we c...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

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