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Improvement to Distributed Lock Manager (DLM) for shared files.

Request for an improved DLM mechanism when leveraging a scale out protocole node approach to better handle Locking broadcasting overhead for "shared to all" files and folder.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Change capacity limit for file storage systems

The new capacity planning report functionality tracks against a capacity limit of 100%. However, customers may have a threshold for implementing administrative controls on growth, data migration, or initiating new purchases. It would be helpful to...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Prioritising tape replication by catagory/dataclass

Currently data replication is performed on a fifo algorithm so as soon as a tape is available and there is a spare replication thread the tape will start to replicate. We have a situation where we have batch jobs that use a tape category for large...
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Ability to configure alert summary email frequency

IBM Spectrum Protect offers the ability to enable sending an alert summary email up to three admin ids. The option (set alertsummarytoadmins) is not configurable. If you specify an adminid a summary email will be send every hour. Its not possible ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SIDhistory support needed for AD domain migration

Our customer is going to merge 2 hospitals into one new Active Directory domain and needs to have support for SIDhistory to keep access to files from both old domains. This is needed in SAMBA in CES. Support for SIDhistory is already available in ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

export/import backupset volhist and ToC pool

If replication is used to migrate data from one SP server to another SP server, information about backupsets (and exports) in volhist is not sent over to the new server.make export server able to export server filedata=backupsetand export server f...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Change password expiration for only one userid

Hello, We would like to know if it is possible to create a command to change the password expiration for only one userid, not for all the userid on the ds8k. today when we use the chpass command the password is changed for al the user id from the ...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Support GC-GC cascaded start option in 3 site MT sessions

When using CSM for migration scenarios in 3 site topologies, a typical approach is to migrate via PPRC Failover or HyperSwap from old MGM cascade to a new GC-GC cascade. Today, the new GC-GC cascade requires to use temporary 2 site MM sessions bei...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Allow Target Server to be specified on Replicate Node

Allow the the target replication server to be specified on the replicate node command. In addition, document the DOMAIN option on replicate node in online and admin quide.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Use built-in hardware encryption of NVME, SSD, or HDD drives

Currently encryption is optionally available at the 'GPFS layer': * https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.0?topic=administering-encryption While this may be useful, there is a lot of overhead in setting it up and maintaining it. Meanwhile...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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