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Scripts executed on client to have parameters/environment variables

When trying to implement backup with proxy nodes (and placing all data on a single target-node), a problem arises. Since backups with proxy nodes requires the ASNODE parameter, and in a hosted environment it is not desirable to create customer spe...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

SVC Location information

We should add a location information for the SVC Clusters and individual nodes, so that in MetroMirror and Global Mirror as well as split cluster setups the user can more easily identify the location of entities.
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Introduce Timeout in DSMCAD

By default, dsmcad doesn't have any time out value. Post Rapid Force NVA 6.6.128 upgrade, the connection of NVA Scan is not closing as expected. Post Scan of TSM Client on dynamic or dedicated dsmcad port, the connection stays as active, dsmcad se...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

SVC can be connected to security logging and monitoring system

The requirement is that as audit events are generated; a syslog message is sent into the audit system. We would like the ability to configure multiple syslog destinations for resilience and also have the ability to specify the target port.Applies ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

V7000 Legal Disclaimer

A customizable legal disclaimer should be configurable at logon
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

V7000 Diasable Factory Account

It is a requirement to disable the default factory account
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Remove 3-1 core allocation for RTC

Please could you remove the compression allocated to 3 cores and 1 for the system. I have seen that the single core for systems goes to 93% and the compression hovers around 22% and the system is slow. I would suggest having a limiter (Like QoS) t...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Tool to generate clusterdefinition.txt from a running cluster

clusterdefinition.txt is the core of the toolkit that is used not only for install but during the lifecycle of the cluster. Due multiple reasons (HW fail on node that was used to deploy, manual add of nodes, NSD, IPs, ..., many other) the file wou...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Storwize IP replication allow more than one cycle period

Title: Storwize IP replication allow more than one cycle periodTCC Client Owner: Jason Robinson, Tyson FoodsPriority: MediumProblem description: IP replication allows only single cycle periodCurrent workaround: NoneProposed resolution: Allow multi...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

add support for "defaultHelperNodes" in AFM

mmafmctl always runs "mmapplypolicy" over all nodes which mount filesystem regardless of definitions of "defaultHelperNodes"As for now, the Helper nodes in AFM code are hardcoded as "mount" (see mmafmctl), while existing configuration parameter "d...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

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