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Spectrum Protect PLUS support Oracle 10g

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support Oracle 10g over RedHat v5.9 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect PLUS support RedHat v6.4

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support RedHat v6.4 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version.The objective it's to protect (with SPP) Oracle 11g.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Add virtualmountpoint support for Spectrum Protect for Space Management on Spectrum Scale servers

Please allow Spectrum Protect for Space Management in a Spectrum Scale environment to operate on virtualmountpoints. This means support in the following scenario: 1) A large Spectrum Scale file system is split into multiple smaller filesets. 2) Ea...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Config Changes in GUI

Provide the ability for the Spectrum Scale GUI to show and make changes to the GPFS config parameters and provide recommendations to nodes and nodeclasses in the GUI. A tuning page would check the configuration of nodes and nodeclasses and allow f...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Capability to generate a "application consistent" snapshot on a secondary when replicating data with new policy-based async replication

Scenario is quite simple: client wants to generate an "application consistent" snapshot on his secondary site while data are replicated using new policy-based replication. To do so client will freeze I/O on primary site once application is in a co...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Better vendor-independent monitoring

Currently SMI-S is the only supported vendor-neutral API. We have 5 vendors in our storage environment. The SNIA Swordfish API is not currently implemented by either vendor, with only timid hints at future implementations. We need to have professi...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Provie a button or tab that exposes API calls that would have resulted in the previous GUI activity.

The command line actions used are shown when a GUI action is completed, but this does not always map to a specific API call or sequence of API calls. It would be helpful for those trying to move to automated workflows to see what the API call woul...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Fs Permission denined still Backup reporting as completed with this error TS004208374

we are facing backup issue, we have NFS volumes backups. one of the volume backup not happening, and schedules showing backup got completed. Please find the below error. 08/20/2020 03:30:10 ANS4007E Error processing '/netapp/bocfshanamc36-sapds-sv...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Snapshot support multiple DB2 databases within a single instance

FEPOC owns Flashcopy Manager for DB2 and has performed a Proof of Concept (POC) and identified changes required to the current DB2 environment in order to implement flashcopy. A problem was identified in the POC based on CCTI's unique architecture...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

De-couple CES NFS and SMB services

From support: You can stop NFS service without stop SMB. But if you want stop SMB service, you need stop NFS first. We need to stop all access to AFM collections but still need to serve non-AFM NFS to our cluster. Easiest would be to only shutdown...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

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