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Spectrum Scale REST API Endpoint for mmafmconfig

We need a way that the Spectrum Scale REST API exposes the mmafmconfig command. In particular the mmafmconfig enable <fileset> is important for us.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Decommission VM confirmation with filespace name

When decommission is run for example:DECOMMISSION VM VMNAME 999 NAMETYPE=FSID No confirmation of what filespace/vmname is shown. The confirmation message:ANR3392W DECOMMISSION VM: This command will decommission the specified virtual machine. The a...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

adding back CLOSE_WRITE to watchfolder and mmwatch

as a customer , we need to get informed , when a file gets closed, but only, if the file was changed ... we are not interessted on CLOSEs , when the file content was not changed. To sort out millions of false positives of thise unchanged CLOSE cal...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support SMB Persistent Handles

Hi, When trying to copy files using rsync via SMB shares exported by Spectrum Scale, we are experiencing errors after session disconnection\ces node failovers. currently, scale does not provide persistent\durable file handles. we are kindly asking...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

SPF-I-3280 .. regarding this idea .. can you please explain how this function is working

There is a customer requirement to generate a report from event table .. to have a daily overview from client backup .. to have start time, endtime, and status from each backup. Additionally the customer need the output from the client, which Mgmt...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

z/VM support on CSM

Currently z/VM support is managed only via GDPS using xDR proxies (SA MP). We are running lot of applications on zVM but the binaries for z/Linux on IBM disk is minimal and the application data is from a different storage hardware and only for the...
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Vmmaxvirtualdisks bigger than 8 TB

We have customers with disk bigger than 8 TB.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

VASA 3.0\DRP with child pools (VVol support)

IBM is lacking support for VASA 3.0 with VVol support with data reduction pools.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Migration plans for cloud offload data in SPP

Customers looking to make use of cloud offload generally have archival of snapshots in mind. This particular customer is currently using CloudA today may want move to CloudB sometime in the future. Currently when a cloud destination is changed in ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SP for VE - EFI BIOS Support

Provide a Support for proper restoring of VMware EFI BIOS. Every customer who uses Basic VMware Hardening won't use Legacy BIOS in Virtual Machines anymore. This should be a Basic Feature. For example Windows Boot Manager is nested into the EFI Bo...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration