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Spectrum Copy Data Management should update /etc/fstab

SCDM should automatically update /etc/fstab on linux targets when it mounts replicated filesystems and also remove them when unmounting them. Then filesystems will automatically be mounted if the target system reboots.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Flashcopy Manager Snapshot Support for Spectrum Virtualize in a Hyperswap Relationship

Currently FCM snapshot support is only established for Spectrum Virtualize within SVC in a stretched cluster setup. We need support for snapshots for the whole Flashsystem/SVC family within a Hyperswap relation, adressing IBM AIX, VMware, Linux an...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

Manufacturing Reset

Client would like the ability to put the library back in a Manufacturing Factory Reset state with a CLI command rather than needing IBM Service to clear the existing configuration.
almost 5 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

SSH ACCESS

Could you please provide SSH access in order to automatize some operations like backup of the conf ?
over 1 year ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

TRUE GUI

Why the GUI has a limited window size ? When it will be modern ?
over 1 year ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

RFE: Allow file system ?-n? attribute to be changed

When a Spectrum Scale file system is created, several parameters must be specified that can not be changed after the fact. One of these is the “-n” parameter giving an estimate of the number of systems that will be mounting a file system, directly...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

TSM is not supproted on p7 except in p6 compatibility mode

TSM on p7 hardware requires that you run the LPAR in p6 compatibility mode. This is a Java/DB2 limitation during the install or upgrade. This limitation should be fixed as it nullifies the reason for migrating to better/faster hardware. http://www...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

ESS and Spectrum Scale GUI display min/max performance statistics

Clients have a meeting with Markus R. for the feedback on the GUI, statistics charting and REST interface on Feb 13, 2020. One key requirement is to display the aggregation of performance statistics to track spikes bykeeping min/max values and not...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Operations Center timeout

In Operations Center we would like to see an option to set a time out level for the OC, where after a set period of time (in our case 15 minutes) of inactivity, meaning you have not clicked or refreshed your web page, you are sent back to the logi...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Skip recall when files are open()ed with O_TRUNC

Adding this feature it would prevent many unnecessary recalls. As recalls from tape are an expensive operation it would improve the performance of the filesystem.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration