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Add "exception=yes" function to query actlog command, plus other enhancements

The addition of the "exception=yes" function to the query actlog, along the same lines as used by the query event command, would aid in trolling though the activity log of a long or chatty process or session. This would only output the error and w...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Enhanced CLI command history and search

The old dsmadmc command line interface is unchanged for many years. One of the more aggravating deficiencies is a short command history and lack of search capability.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

API for FlashCopy Manager

At the moment, the only way to interact with FCM is by using the command line, and parse output in case we need to automate any operations - which is pretty much unusable in terms of automation. We need an API for the FlashCopy Manager! The API sh...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Record BackupID/CloneID in the log/trace filenames

At the moment, it is pretty much impossible to make a unambiguous connection between a certain operation (backup or clone) and it's logs/trace files, let alone automate this process (backup failed -> send me the afferent log files via email). W...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM with custom application won't work with files >50k

FCM don't work with custom applications and more than 50K Files. There is a wait time from 1h to endless. We need a parameter to skip scanning. It's described in IC81771 but not solved. Support said RFE is needed.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Is a defect

OSX 10.8+ client : GPFS protocol over IP

Performance improvements over NFS3/4 and SMB2
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Ability to add and remove parallel threads / nodes to a currently executing policy

Increase or decrease the processing of a running policy on the fly
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Globally accessible and coherent cache

A cached block is cached on all nodes and hence accessible from all nodes
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

NDMP support in native GPFS

GPFS does not natively support NDMP.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

[BDA] Cache control via runtime policy engine

If caching could be controlled by the policy engine, the user could intelligently control that valuable resource with respect to their known workloads / data types.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

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