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If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !

If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Is a defect

TSM Missed backup status used to have a completion time of when the event missed now it's blank since 6.2.3. Please add back

Product: Tivioli Storage Manager Server Version 6, Release 2, Level 3.0 This is specific to a Missed backupWhen a backup has Missed the timestamp is recorded in the actlog but when executing the QUERY EVENT it is not recorded. We would like the co...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Is a defect

show rebuild V7000 under running tasks

As you can see we've had a hard disk with a lot errors. We've changed the hdd with a new one and reset the disk status back to spare disk. After this the array began to rebuild, but you can't see anything under the GUI of the V7000. Only with a sp...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Is a defect

ESS GUI in mix env (emsp9 & emsp8)

In mix env where there is EMS P8 + ESS GL systems, and EMS P9 + ESS5K/ESS3K, we can not move to 1 EMS P9 as active GUI - since it report old HW as unknown state.
about 3 years ago in ESS 0 Is a defect

File permission - default at 666, change to 644

The following have permissions set (by default) to 666: /etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.crl/etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.rdb/etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.kdb Setting at 644 works for root user. It is possibl...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

Moving a node to another domain should not remove it from the backup schedule automatically.

Logically the command to move the node to another domain should have failed until I removed the node from the current backup schedule as the domain is tied to the schedule. Or I would expect a message prompting to continue informing me that the no...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Is a defect

mmhealth incorrectly reports Windows nodes as FAILED

Scale 4.2.3NSD nodes on x86, rhel7.3client nodes on x86, rhel and Windows 2012 R2When executed on NSD node, mmhealth incorrectly shows Windows node as FAILED:---# mmhealth cluster show node Component Node Status Reasons----------------------------...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

mmunlinkfileset -f report unmatch error message

[root@pnsd1 ~]# mmunlinkfileset aggr3 user_scratch -fUnable to quiesce fileset at all nodes.Fileset user_scratch has open files. Specify -f to force unlink. From above output we can see the error is not accurate reflecting customer's issue. They h...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

SpecV queue full condition not being properly retried/recovered by MSDSM

Ian Mac Quarrie and Bill Passingham are aware of this issue at GEICO. Spectrum Virtualize in combination with Windows MSDSM is currently experiencing issues when Spectrum Virtualize hits a queue full condition. This condition needs to be fixed.Bil...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

Set correct locale for dsmcad RC script on Ubuntu 14.04

The rc.dsmcad init script does not set the locale in all cases. Since dsmcad starts dsmc, this leads to encoding errors (ANS4042E) and several files not being backed up on SuSE and Ubuntu systems. For RedHat systems, the file /etc/init.d/functions...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

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