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Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data (SYS4039)

Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration

TSM Scheduler Update (SYS4331)

The Best Practice for TSM server environments is to include Full backups on a periodic basis. With the efficiency of the incremental Forever strategy of TSM, there comes a side effect that can become a road block to achieving a timely RTO. This is...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

To enable SSL to transitional for nodes automatically without human intervention

We are often facing backup failure due to SSL connection failure which needs to be updated manually from SP servers As we have only client support, we are fully dependent on SP Server team, due to that process, backup is impacting we need a soluti...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

[Copy] Lack of integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

Lack of an integration between IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) using Pure Storage. Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption a supported combination of Pure, CDM and SP solution.
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

Powering a node on remotely

Sometimes we need to power off a node for testing purposes and we have no option to power the same node on after we are done with the testing..
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Improve system memory hard limit for GPFS program startup to adapt to AI system

We hit the following issue on Spectrum Scale 5.1.6.1 when GPFS is starting up. 2023-12-13_21:22:28.648+0800: [I] Verifying minimum system memory configurations.2023-12-13_21:22:28.648+0800: [I] The system memory configuration is 2063930 MiB2023-12...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow manually to set up limits for Daemon pods on Openshift platform

Currently when we perform hot-add on a OCP node, SpectrumScale operator detects that and set that node into "Spectrum scale update" state. That means that all pods will be evicted from that worker, because operator has set that node into cordone s...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Scale needs to be NIST 800-53 compliant.

After scanning our system, Stig report is generated and there is one case have been addressed from our side but is still not resolved. In additional details, the issue is being addressed.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Populate user friendly naming convention & protocol on notification - GUI enhancements

Hello IBM Team, We came across the notification which shows the "Ethernet port failure" but in details sections the Event ID Text has "Fewer ethernet ports operational" but its not populating the right naming convention & right protocol type t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

start all available NSDs after reboot or with "mmchdisk start -a"

"mmchdisk FS start -a" fails if one or more NSDs of a file system is not available (e.g. did not spin up). This is very odd. Our expectation is, that all available NSDs are started, and only the unavailable devices stay down. Actually, all NSDs of...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration