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Possibility to deploy/update Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center

Update of Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center is not possible.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Samba "hide unreadable = root_only" to boost performance

In most cases we need Samba's "hide unreadable" only on root directory of an smb export. A switch to enable "hide unreadable" only for the export dir's content and not for the whole subtree should significantly improve performance.
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Powershell interface to dsmc and dsmadmc

Powershell is becoming the scripting language of choice for windows. It is difficult to call existing dsmc and dsmadmc command line tools from powershell and reasonably process the output. Powershell has an object pipeline model and file output do...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

FlashSystem Freeze time delay metric

When I do my nightly data refresh from my Corporate FlashSystem to my remote Disaster Recovery FlashSystem, the 'Freeze time' in the "Copy Services" - "Remote Copy" - "Consistency Group" - 'Freeze time' falls behind from being current. I would lik...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Not under consideration

TS7700 Web Management Interface for IBM BP

Supply to IBM BP a TS7700 WEB MI as a remote tool or demo
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 1 Not under consideration

Check pool usage in units of "fileset"

My client company is a customer who uses "fileset" in a wide variety.The customer is using "ess3200" and "ess5000" divided into "system pool" and "data1 pool".The customer has transferred the data from "system pool" in "fileset" to "data1 pool".Ho...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

ISP code should be able to handle the same input/output volume when multiple parallel reclamation processes need access to the volume

When using the following stgpool configuration with ISP there is a limitation torun parallel reclamation for multiple tape pools within the setup: 1. protect stgpool container_archive_prim --> copy_container_archive_prim2. stgrule copy containe...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Allow guest access to an SMB share

With medical instruments and probably many other devices not always connected to an Active Directory domain due to aging operating systems on the instruments' consoles or instruments' vendors restrictions or limitations, it would be necessary for ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

NFS Export: Show connected clients

Tool that will list the clients that are connected to *a particular NFS (CES) export*
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

GNR needs to be supported outside ESS

Since Spectrum Scale is a Software Defined Storage product, we would need to support GNR outside of Elastic Storage Server.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration