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Spectrum Scale Toolkit support for separated admin and daemon network

Due to security, some clients have different IPs for daemon and for admin network, in a Spectrum Scale Cluster, and current version of Toolkit does not support different networks.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Management Class in Library Request Command LVOL

There is no way to see the management class for a specific volume with the Library Request Command LVOL. You will get a lot of information, but there are no SMS constructs in the output. In the MI you will find it via Volume Details, but there is ...
5 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Planned for future release

Ganesha - Event 1 could not be processed for fd 5 rc I/O error , report the client that abuse the Ganesha, monitor that error and have action

When Ganesha server hit this error - the NFS server just hang , there is no ip failover, or restart of the NFS server: epoch 001103c9 : gpfs.ganesha.nfsd-1492239[fsal_up_0.48] GPFSFSAL_UP_Thread :FSAL_UP :WARN :Event 1 could not be processed for f...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Is a defect

SPP: Extend Retention period for existing backup

SPP: Extend Retention period for existing backupWe need an option to change expiration date for already taken backup to desired value. For example to change it to expire in 1 year instead of 1 month with which it was taken.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Secure all of Copy Services Manager for z/OS via SAF

SAF Access Currently the Copy Services Manager product that we are using, that is installed and running under z/OS, is accessed and governed by a GUI via a web browser with the appropriate IP address and port number. To logon to the CSM GUI, we pr...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Request for Possible improvement in SP4VE GUI

In the GUI via WEB of SP4VE, when you access to perform a restore, the different datastorages appear where each machine that we have in backup to be able to do restores is located inside. The problem is that there is no search engine to search for...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Functionality already exists

SPP does not report "Missed" backups

SPP does not report "Missed" backups.If a backup is attempted and fails, this is reported in the job logs and can be reported on in the generate reports.However, if a job does not run on schedule (e.g. SPP is down, job has been paused for maintena...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Chargeback reporting in SPP (Pre/Post Dedup/Compression)

There is a similar RFE from a US customer but their requirements seem to differ slightly: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=119247 Request from customer on chargeback reporting in SPP. This is a requirement f...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SVC Easy Tier - Heat Map Transfer Request

Given that SVC is used for DR, and with 7.3.x Easy Tier allows 3 tiers, just like in the DS8K series, it is critical for customers to be able to have the Heat Map Transfer for the SVC to ensure efficient transition to a DR center during a disaster...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Requesting Support for 2-Factor Authentication with Spectrum Protect

As backup data is a primary tool used to recover from ransomware, ensuring the highest level of security surrounding the protection of TSM / Spectrum Protect data has been highlighted by Information Security. Having administrative accounts which h...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

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