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Operation Center Client deployment - query state of update package deployment

We need to be able to query the state of client deployment package distribution to spoke server. So which spoke server has successfully received its deployment package and is ready to update its client nodes, which spoke server failed to receive i...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Operation Center Client deployment - be able to deploy packages with command

Currently the polling and distributing of client deployment packages occurs every morning at 08:00 on the OC server, it is not officially possible to start this manually. Also if started manually with the undocumented refresh pkg command the proce...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Feature request: Scan all the errors necessary to identify corrupted files on a disk (LUN)

Issue: mmdeldisk command fails because there are corrupt files on an NSD (LUN). The feature should run mmrestripefs, mmdeldisk, mmrpldisk to check for any errors. By just scanning for the errors those commands produce, the clients could run it eas...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Please add ACME Client for TSSC

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On TSSC this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals. A ...
5 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Add ACME client for DS8K HMC and DS8K Storage Manager

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On the DS8K this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals...
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

RHEL 9.X And GPFSGUI Daemon Fail bug?

line 67, checkPortIsAlreadyUsed in "/usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/bin-sudo/check4iptables" This function can act unintentionally when searching for 443 ports. "checkPortIsAlreadyUsed" can act unintentionally when searching for 443 ports on the 72nd line of "/...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Is a defect

Create 'Retention set on Tape' for SQL and DB2

Creating Retention sets on tape are only possible for TDP Vmware/Hyper-V and BAclient; we would like the capability to be extended to DB2 and SQL as well. ANR1017E UPDATE RETRULE: File space SQLREP\SQL02\meta\0000 that belongs to node SQL01N1_SQL ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

SP Operations Center Reports in Attached Format

SP Operations Center Reports in Attached Format
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Allow global Filter/search across entire SI Instance

When I have multiple devices in my environment, I need a quick way to drill down to what device is of immediate concern. If I get CRC errors from a WWPN, I need to search my SI instance for which array is presenting that WWPN. If I need to grow a ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

SP Generate Dedupstats by filespace for datacenter nodes

Scheduled dedupstats only run one process per node. This is fine for many node types, but in datacenters with 1000 nodes, it can result in a single process running for a week or two, while all of the other processes have completed.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Functionality already exists

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