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Create empty nodeclass

We need to create nodeclasses before we have nodes available to assign to the node class. This will allow us to set GPFS configuration for the nodeclass through our configuration management scripts and help ensure we have standardized configuratio...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Overflow data placement

When creating a new filesystem with more than 1 pool, GPFS will guess where to put the file data. It would be nice if it was also capable of spillover to other pools, when the pool it guessed for here runs full: RULE 'default' SET POOL 'data' LIMI...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Multi-factor authentication support for shibboleth identity providers

Johns Hopkins uses shibboleth identity providers as SSO and MFA, they would like to have this work with the SVCs and Flashsystems (FS9150, FS7300s)
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

HP StoreOnce Catalyst Integration for TSM

HP StoreOnce Catalyst enables deduplication to be deployed in flexible, cost effective ways that were not previously possible. It provides enhanced multi-site and cascaded replication options to balance performance, cost, and resiliency. Exploitin...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

More filter options for the QUERY ACTLOG command

The ACTLOG table/view contains around 14 fields and the majority of these have corresponding options which can be used to filter the output of QUERY ACTLOG. For example MSGNO=, NODENAME=, SESSNUM=. However the list of fields that can be used as fi...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

improvement for 'Generate backupset' to support SQL and Exchange filespaces

Backupsets are a great way to handle data to be stored for long term retention. Lots of TSM customers use backupsets for that purpose. Alas it's not possible to generate a backupset for filespaces containing data from TDP backups such as SQL and E...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Syslog encryption request for the IBM XIV arrays.

Syslog Encryption request for the IBM XIV arrays. Secure log shipping for XIV arrays
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

API to return changed blocks since last backup

While Spectrum Scale synergy with Spectrum Protect (TSM) is great and completely adapted to the backup of a file system that is hosting a very large number of files (basically used as a file server) that are added every day and some of them being ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Expand mmrsync to accept filelist

mmrsync accepts the filenames only as parameters. Extend it to also accept a filename containing a list of files to sync.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Add option to backup VM with Shared Virtual Hard Disks.

With the current release of IBM Spectrum Protect for Hyper-V, VM's with Shared virtual disks cannot be backed-up (error message: ANS2552E Backup of a virtual machine that has a shared virtual hard disk is not supported.). Add an option similar lik...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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