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RESTORE ONLY PERMISSIONS?

Restore only ACL permission
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

mmbackup including "virtual domains"

mmbackup on gpfs 4.1.1.2 with 69 EXCLUDE-statements needs a preparation time of > 2days.The scanning time to receive the inode-list in the /tmp-directory took about 2 hours.The main part of the additional time was needed for creating the weight...
about 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Bulk adding tags to files via REST API without a policy

We use a SQL select query to fetch files from the Spectrum Discover metaocean table and let a script work on these files. The script produces a JSON file with the fkey of every file and a JSON dictionary with tags that we want to add. Since we're ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Define subrule (tiering) add syntax

When making a "Define subrule" for tiering you are only able to use node_name. It would be perfect if it was possible to use node_group_name as well, just like in define subrule for replication.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Virtualize does not warn or advise about number of backend paths

Spectrum Virtualize family of products do not advise administrators of missing paths (started at 4 and dropped to 2) nor does it advise when you have too few paths (2 instead of say 6 needed to take full advantage of backend storage) in the GUI or...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Specturm Virtualize does not provide a warning for too many paths being presented to hosts.

Spectrum Virtualize does not provide a warning nor prevention of too many paths visible to hosts. This is very common and causes many performance impacts or non-optimal performance.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Citi needs increase for the max limit for vol name

Chatting with our dev team, the max limit for vol name length is 63 in the code (though we see 58 for ours). They can officially start working on increasing it with an RFE from Citi. I pushed for 256 and they’re open to it.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Reclaim of offsite Filling volumes

On old style copypools and the new style protect stg to local tape, reclaim does not occur on tape volumes in state Filling.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Redirect GUI DB to a different directory

This RFE is to allow users for setting the PG_DATA environment in Scale GUI for redirecting the database outside the root directory of the system.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

define clientaction - change of default values

The define clientaction command, if executed without any parameters, starts an incremental backup on all nodes in all domains. This is potential risk because the administrator can make a mistake and press enter key before entering any parameters. ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration

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