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Externalize Netview/GDPS Response Messages

In the current design the only facility to diagnose problems encountered in the Netview and GDPS Command/Response sequences is to repeat the migration with the SNAP option specified. This would be unnecessary if the messages were written to the JO...
over 4 years ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Future consideration

Monthly daily SPP backup report

For a given month (or period) provide daily SPP backup status (success, failed, undone). Provides single view to compute the backup SLA commonly used in outsourcing engagement.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Allow VDI timeout to be user controlled (SP for MSSQL, legacy backups)

When using Spectrum Protect's data protection for MSSQL (legacy backups), there is a hardcoded timeout limit for the TDP to wait for the availability of the VDI. Currently this is set to 60 seconds, and can only be observed by tracing the TDP oper...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

Graceful failure of AFM recall timeouts when using AFM-NSD + Support for offline file awareness with AFM (related issues)

Any client using AFM-NSD Caching with a home storage repository that uses DMAPI aware Hierarchical Storage Management is at risk. AFM-NSD has no ability to gracefully respond when an AFM Cache requst to a recall filesfrom home times out. AFM-NFS u...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add support for Subject Alternate Name in certificate request through the GUI.

Chrome 58 and above now checks for the presence of the Subject Alternate Name in the certificate. If it isn't found, the certificate is deemed to be insecure or broken. The new GUI certificate request feature should ask the user for the SAN name d...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Have Spectrum CDM check UUID of the device before removal, thus avoiding the likelyhood of the wrond device being removed

When CDM creates its cleanup data for removing a copy it records the device name it used when the disks were added, for example, /dev/sdn. These device names are not persistent and as CDM does a "echo 1 > /bin/sys/block/sdn/device/delete" to re...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Add NDMP Plugin Functionality for Spectrum Scale File System Backup

Since Spectrum Scale Cluster 5.1.1 containing ESS3000 nodes can hold billions of files in a file system, its a must feature to come up with NDMP plugin in the Spectrum Scale for backup purpose to speed up the backup performance. Backing up files d...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Make mmsdrrestore command able to restore Zimon configuration files

The files /opt/IBM/zimon/ZIMonCollector.cfg and /opt/IBM/zimon/ZIMonSensors.cfg are needed for the pmcollector and pmsensors daemons.When a node is re-installed we use the mmsdrrestore command to restore the GPFS node configuration. Unfortunately ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Storing File Permission and ACL on LTFS

Because of our security requirement we want to store the file and acl permissions, owner and group info already for the files that are migrated to tape with spectrum archive.
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

modify hostname for SYSLOG

Our syslog management have to get logs with a specific source name. We want to pu a personalized source name instead of the default of LinuxServer @ Adresse_SerialNumber_
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 6 Future consideration

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