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Make CSI upgrade easier for disconnected clusters

At the present time when you want to upgrade spectrum scale's CSI there's no clear documentation: I go to the target version section and then to the 'upgrade' part. But there's nothing written for a disconnected cluster and for RHEL servers. To ha...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

GUI: Provide a way to specify a the port to be used for multicluster connects _per cluster_

We have a gpfs gui running on the dss-g xcat server. Unfortunately xcat blocks the default gui port 443 so we had to run the gui on port 8443 (suggestion by Lenovo). However, connects from multicluster gui nodes are not possible this way. We can ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Support for SQL on Linux

SQL DBA's do a research for using MS SQL on Linux for Big Databases
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP SSL Certificate upload needs significant improvement

The process to upload an SSL certificate for Spectrum Protect Plus is unclear and misleading. The "manage your certificates" upload screen in the admin console states that the supported certificate format are cer and crt. These are also listed as ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Allow copy storage rules to select only active data AND to allow selection of from-date and to-date for copy to tape in fully hydrated tape copies.

This is useful because starting from scratch and trying to copy multiple inactive as well as the active copy of extremely large data backups (for example Epic databases) to tape for hydrated copies takes an extremely long time. The library is unav...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Node Replication Status

When a node fails to replicate, it is nearly impossible to determine why it failed. You have to open a PMR and gather logs and usually have to bring in level II support. This is a big waste of both my and IBM supports' time.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

DS8K Metromirror Recovery Method

In order to quickly recovery a metromirror relationship (at 800KM) the copy sets had to be switched to Global Copy Mode and then Switched back once resynched. This should not be an undocumented recovery method. This should be automatic behavior fr...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Ability to generate a report of all the Hydra system inventory.

Ability to generate a report of all the system inventory. -Frame serial number, hydra serial number, tssc serial number, cache controller and enclosures per frame with serial numbers, etc.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Add support for tape media partitioning

With the ever increasing capacity of tape volumes collocation by node wastes more and more space for smaller nodes. Switching to collocation by group is not an option for us as we have thousands of nodes that are not in our direct control so we do...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

A new policy update from BA client .optfile that does not allow overwrite a management class from BA client.

A server admin can update the .optfile from BA client by human error causing an overwrite of a management class at Spectrum Protect server, that is causing unexpected expiration of backups. For example, a configuration mistake pointing the .optfil...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

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