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Spectrum Scale Integration with the systemd mount facility (JUMP Trading LLC)

Spectrum Scale does not currently integrate with the systemd mounts facility, which means that systemd has no way of determining if Spectrum Scale file systems are properly mounted on a node. Please see the following discussion on the Fedora syste...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Assist On-site support for SAN Volume Controller

We request to support the Assist On Site (AOS) for SVC. The client requests that the IBM support center can use remote support feature. Therefore support for Assist On-Site would be a good solution, because other IBM storage systems like XIV / DS8...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Spectrum Scale Needs to Accommodate more than 128 GPFS Max Groups per UserID with AIX 7.1

Currently there is a limitation of MAX groups per user what are supported by current GPFS on AIX 7.1 Long time ago AIX 7.1 (~2010) did increase maximum of groups per user up to 2048 where GPFS keep support to only first 128 groups ( like old AIX 6...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

copy export for z/VM

We mutualize our TS7700 with our clients. When a client requires to use it, we would like to export our data to give him a TS7700 we can clean up for his standalone restore. Then be able to restore our data when he has finished his exercice.
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Delivered

Add LROC support for Encrypted data

When using Local Read-Only Cache (LROC) functionality with encrypted file system data, the LROC function is bypassed and data is not held locally to increase performance. Data from encrypted file systems should be used with LROC. I should be held ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Create a new column in percentile within Storage Insights for "SafeGuarded Copy SGC Used Capacity"

The SGC reserved capacity is set per volume. This capacity can be set to whatever multiplier of the original CKD volume itself. To be able to monitor this SGC reserved capacity it is imperative to have a column for SGC Used Capacity in percentage ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

TSM for Linux PPC

i understand version 8 will not be supported on LinuxPPC servers
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Delivered

Add STAT tools to Compass code / GUI

Put the functionality of this STAT tool inside the Storwize code and GUI This is regarding all Storwize Family products.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Backup catalog/database to different site

Have the possibility to backup the catalog and SPP database to another site as the SPP server. Example, we backup now everuthing to the primary site. But for disaster recovery it would be nice to have the possibility to backup the catalogs (and SP...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Clustered Data Ontap version 9.0 GA

Unable to Backup our New Cluster running:Current Cluster Version: NetApp Release 9.0: Fri Aug 19 11:04:54 UTC 2016
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Delivered

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