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SVC volume naming and sorting

When using the web GUI to create multiple volumes the only option for appending a numerical suffix is to use base 10 numbers. Would like the ability to append a hex number, or even better would be to be able to use the last several digits of the U...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Support L3 routable secondary data networks

Spectrum Scale was designed to support non routable secondary/private high speed data networks. Such as infiniband or 40/100GB Ethernet. The assumption being that only a limited set of servers would use the network. As our needs have grown we have...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Mailbox Restore Browser functionality for Exchange 2016

I would like the Mailbox Restore Browser functionality added for Exchange 2016
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Customization of Client Auto-deployment Schedule

We would like to modify the auto deploy schedule in order to make it successful in our environment.In our infra, we do have multiple nodes configured for same host, hence multiple CAD services are running.After version 8.1.11, we are unable to sta...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to use the "dedup_device" with TSM for ERP (DB2) Product

Customer backup its DB2 database with Sp. Protect (ex TSM) ; backup storage is ProtecTIER (IBM Open deduplication solution). In order to boost both backup / restaure performances and deduplication ratio the 'dedup_device' option has been be set up...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

CES/NFS/SMB Function Enhancements

1) CES FO/FB timeout, shorten the io pending time in the failure of CES node failure/GPFS node failure/one of FG failure in replication mode. The io pending time should be less than 4-5s. 2) AFM/DR RPO Interval, the minimal RPO interval is 60 minu...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

TSM is not supproted on p7 except in p6 compatibility mode

TSM on p7 hardware requires that you run the LPAR in p6 compatibility mode. This is a Java/DB2 limitation during the install or upgrade. This limitation should be fixed as it nullifies the reason for migrating to better/faster hardware. http://www...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TVE Duplicate Backup Task

If a backup task is running and new one task is started on the same object using the GUI, it will cause the first backup to fail. The TVE system should indicate that a backup on the object is currently executing and skip or queue the second backup...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Full Active Directory Intergration

Full Active Directory Integration as a single signon solution
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

enhance security control in Kerberos based NFS to enable changes of Group / User during TGT Renewal time

Ganesha NFS uses Kerberos Tickets PAC to map user access control. This PAC ic valid as long as the Ticket is valid. If the user gets changed for any urgent reasons, this is realized only when TGT is invalidated and a new TGT is provided.In many ca...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration