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Add the Persisent option for the practice FC (H3-I3 role pair) in CSM session.

The MM-GM with practice session is missing the Persistent option for the H3-I3 FC role pair (I suppose the other session with practice are missing the option too). This is useful if H3 volumes are space efficient, the FC relation should be persist...
11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Needs more information

Operation Center Anomaly Reporting Improvement

Right the anomaly reporting of OC is very basic and not very usefull. There is no good way to export it and create a daily list of client nodes with anomalies and what type of anomalies are those. We would like to be able: Generate a daily spreads...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Prevent Web B/A client file level restore port conflict with WAS ports

Customer identified during the Spectrum Protect web client implementation that its ports (9081) conflicts directly with WAS (Websphere Application Server) ports that's is being in use by their banking online production applications. Thus this beha...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

SPP: be able to rename SLA

SPP: Please allow for renaming SLA.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for GFS2 file systems

Support for GFS2 file systems. Customer tested the backup and restore of GFS2 FileSystems and the attributes are not restored. Then, the current solution is not valid
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Volume format should be faster or invisible to the user

Feedback from a user group meeting: On the CLI, the mkvolume command to create a new volume will always create an empty volume. No exceptions. There is no option to do otherwise so I know my volumes will always be created zeroed, which is great fo...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Shorten the pending IO time to 5-30s during node expel

When node in ECE cluster was expelled from cluster, the IO pending time is long as 1-3 minutes. Some of applications failure due to long pending time,especial to OLTP or AI training jobs. Competitors which using traditional dual-controllers mode c...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Improvement to Distributed Lock Manager (DLM) for shared files.

Request for an improved DLM mechanism when leveraging a scale out protocole node approach to better handle Locking broadcasting overhead for "shared to all" files and folder.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support-info collection, upload and analytics tool

It is a pain to collect db2diag-logs, dsmffdc-logs, Q SYSTEM output, Q ACT output and so on for every support ticket, then bundle the files, scp to computer with browser and upload to IBM Support. Why not, instead of sending the commands every tim...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

gpfs client support rocky linux

we expect gpfs client support more operation systems to meet the needs of mostusers, for example rocky linux
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration