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mmbackup does not handle EXCLUDE.DIR rules preferentially over EXCLUDE rules

The TSM BA client dsmc by default includes everything in the backup domain (defaults to all local filesystems), optionally allowing one to exclude paths and even re-include paths that would by excluded by previous rules. There are two mechanisms f...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

multi network connections support (multirail)

Michael Daubman and Lisa visited CMA(China Meteorological Administration). in the meeting, CMA raised this requirement: they hope GPFS to provide the network connection fault tolerance. Linux bond doesn't help CMA because their clusters have two s...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Provide easy to consume day 1 modifications for Openshift to allow large scale Spectrum Discover deployments

Attempting to install a Spectrum Discover v2.0.5 system into a newly installed Openshift v4.10 cluster does only allow "small" deployments. E.g. attempting to install a size 3 mln 9 system results in the following error message and a DB2U that has...
about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Delivered

Implement easy node selection for controlled deployment of Spectrum Discover in Openshift

Attempting to deploy Openshift with node labeling / node selection results in parts of the product being deployed on unlabeld nodes anyways. Also production cluster scaling will mandatory need node labeling / selection to scale out Spectrum Discov...
about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Delivered

Install Spectrum Discover into non default Openshift namespace

Attempting to install Spectrum Discover into non default Openshift namespace results in a "hanging gui" install. All install steps from the knowledge center can be completed, but the system is unusable after. Please allow for non default Openshift...
about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Delivered

Provide documentation for Logfile InventoryUpdate.csv contained in function "Export Library Logs"

It is possible to export the library logs from the starting page of the management interface. This contains also the file "InventoryUpdate.csv" which contains all changes to the inventory of the tapelibrary. This log is very useful when there are ...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Delivered

V7000 Performance Monitoring for EACH MDisk and Volume

V7000 Performance Monitoring should have selectable details and panels for EACH MDisk and Volume, in order to let users see different behaviour of each environment/host type connected to the SAN
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

DNS names instead of IP addresses

The system currently limits our flexibility to change our environment. If a syslog server or a NTP server can only be specified by IP address and not by DNS name this limits my migration options. If the StorWize would accept DNS names instead of a...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Support for the new SCSI T10 standard

SVC needs to support the new T10 DIF standard so that currupted data is recognized
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

SCSI UNMAP Support for SVC 7.7.1.6

Space reclamation is esstential for our Enterprise as space is rapidly consumed. The use of the SCSI UNMAP command is necessary to reclaim large amounts of space that has recently freed up by servers in the environment.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered