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WORM directive for Directory Container Pool with Spectrum Scale immutable fileset

Specify WORM at Spectrum Protect level when writing to a Directory container pool when using Spectrum Scale immutability function on the fileset so Backups can be compliant with a series of security needs.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Media read error to trigger auto rewrite

When a media read error is reported by a device a read from another replica should be followed by a rewrite to the original device to allow the devices LBA to use a different part of the device.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Option to avoid down drives

Option: when a device is down allows writes to blocks on the device to go to a different device rather than create a missed update. This protects the file system from large numbers of missed update blocks and retains full replica count.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Allow for separation of client services from storage services

Allow for the optional separation of the gpfs mmfsd process into a client process mmfscd independent of the gpfs storage process mmfssd. When something goes wrong with I/O subsystem in one node the applications on that node should still be able to...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Operations Center alerting modification

Configure alerting only on the hub server. The hub server should be the monitoring instance which is configured to send emails to administrators defined on hub server. The configuration wizard only shows the admin id's of the hub server. This curr...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Describe how to install/upgrade purchased DAE/DME license files when first using Spectrum Scale Developer Edition

Client wants to install Spectrum Scale Developer Edition today while waiting to receive their DME licenses. Requesting documentation which describes how to install/upgrade purchased DAE/DME license files when Spectrum Scale Developer Edition is cu...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale DMAPI Locking issues

mmap calls are allowed against files where we have acquired DM_RIGHT_EXCLUSIVE, as long as the handle used for mmap was opened before the exclusive right was acquired. Acquiring DM_RIGHT_EXCLUSIVE access on a file with current active mmaps succeed...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Trigger Error 1195 A node has been missing for 30 minutes after any condition that has a node in a non functional state.

Generally the sequence we have seen is a 1196 warning email that a node has failed and then 30 minutes later an 1195 error indicating that the node has been gone for 30 minutes, which also generates an email, and a call home. What we have experien...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Use different option and configuration files in FlashCopyManager for TDP SQL

Since the TDP for SQL GUI has been deprecated and replaced by FlashCopyManager as a GUI, we are unable to select which "dsm.opt" and "tdpsql.cfg" files will be used to perform backups and restores i.e. we are forced to use the default ones: * "c:\...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

Better vendor-independent monitoring

Currently SMI-S is the only supported vendor-neutral API. We have 5 vendors in our storage environment. The SNIA Swordfish API is not currently implemented by either vendor, with only timid hints at future implementations. We need to have professi...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

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