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Increase SMB Share Limit in Scale Cluster

The current Limitations for Spectrum Scale SMB are listed as follows: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_5.0.5/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r05.doc/bl1ins_smbclients.htm "Spectrum Scale can host a maximum of 1000 SMB shares" needs t...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

More flexibility in assigning rights to administrators

In large/complex environments with multiple people having administrative access to the Spectrum Protect server, it is desirable to be able to have better granularity on the rights assigned to each person/login or group. This is in order to be able...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SP for VE: Remove or increase 8TB size VMware virtual machine disks limit

To be able to protect large VMware vmdk files using Spectrum Protect fot Virtual Environments, can the limit on vmmaxvirtualdisks option be increased or removed?
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

VMDK size limit for spectrum protect for ve backups (vmware)

Increase vmdk size limit which is currently 8TB
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Make the time interval for "ANR3654W Inventory file expiration processing did not run in the previous 24 hours" configurable

The message ANR3654W is shown even if an expire inventory schedule was executed every day at 4pm, because the detailed time frame including seconds is checked for the message. The request is either check not on detailed second (maybe a minute or 5...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Login with certificates during file indexing on Linux

Case number: TS000844605 Customer REQUIRES use of certificates when logging into the Linux environment, currently SPP does not support login with certificates during indexing of files.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Operations Center Reports, provide a test button of custom SQL

Today when creating a custom report in Operations Center the interface automatically sends sql select queries to the server to check if the work. This could be done multiple time during the time when you edit the report, that puts a lot of load on...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

Enable wildcards on storage pools and node names on DEDUPSTATS commands

Enable usage of wildcards and/or nodegroups on storage pools and node names on the commands: GENERATE DEDUPSTATSDELETE DEDUPSTATSQUERY DEDUPSTATS
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Enhance REST API to GET/SET all availabe Filesystem Parameter i.e --auto-inode-limit

CNSA requires filesystemes with option --auto-inode-limit to be enabled. That Option is currently not available via REST API "get /scalemgmt/v2/filesystems/{filesystemName}". We utilize the REST API to verify all required storage parameter before ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Make it possible to bypass tsm admin config on TSM4VE Web Interface

It should be possible to "bypass" the TSM Server credentials configuation in the TSM4VE Web interface.Once the configuration has been "bypassed", TSM4VE should never ask for it again.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

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