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FCM: SAP/ORA: Change umount/rmfs order

In case of Flashcopy Manager for Unix/Linux and the application SAP with Oracle DB: if the database must be restored/recovered, then the BRTools must be used. If the BRtools are being started for brrestore/brrecover, then the FlashCopy Manager doe...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Delivered

Need a Spectrum Scale filesystem Maintenance mode (JUMP Trading LLC)

Currently, Spectrum Scale does not have a maintenance mode that can disable operations at the cluster or file system level. This is especially true for large multi cluster configurations that span multiple sites, where maintenance on the storage c...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Add deduplication for storwize V7000

Deduplication would be a nice feature which would extend real time compression functionality
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

CES RFE for Fruit VFS module support

The current version Samba in Protocol Node does not have support for the Fruit VFS module. This precludes some functionality in OS X and other OS's that Media content environments depend on. Specifically the following VFS modules that could be lev...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

A command to display the all disks serial number in a TS7700 for security reason

For security and auditability reasons, we are asked to trace the theft of disks. Also, we would like to be able to list every day all the serial numbers of all the disks installed in each TS7700. It would be easier if this query could be done auto...
almost 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Delivered

Integration of Spectrum Scale CCR services with systemd (JUMP Trading LLC)

systemd is the facility for managing and integrating long running software services. Spectrum Scale needs to be integrated with systemd so that long running, required CCR services are managed by systemd units and not internal Spectrum Scale script...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Automate optimization of calibration of LTO9 tapes...

Cailbration of LTO9 tapes takes for ever. Script-magic is needed to optimize the calibration process. So that all tape drives are used in the library. This will need to change! The agony of calibration tapes grows as the library grows. . .
almost 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 3 Delivered

ICKDSF FLASHCPY support for PAV on z/VSE

System: ICKDSF under z/VSEActor: Restore the original function of ICKDSF FLASHCPY with PAV enabled. Descrition: The enabling of PAV under z/VSE will make the IO from ICKDSF to go through the alias address. There is no way to bypass this address se...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Delivered

better mtu detection in mmnetverify

mmnetverify should try more data sizes than the current data-small/medium/large. F.ex. I just discovered that the ESS installation scripts by defaults sets an MTU of 2048 -- even on ethernet. This is not detected as a problem with the current test...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Naming for the VMWare snapshot generated by TSM4VE

The naming of the VMware snapshots generated by TSM4VE during backup activity should be customizable. You can see if a snapshot is generated by TSM4VE because the properties of a TSM4VE generated snapshot includes a "TSMBackup" information,but a t...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

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