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    Storage Scale and Spectrum Archive: If a pre-migrated or migrated file is deleted, provide a limited window to recover it without having to use Storage Protect

    Current documentation states that for a space-managed fileset if you use snapshots it triggers a recall of the data from tape to disk. The University of Michigan was always told this is a limitation in Storage Scale not Spectrum Archive and that t...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    Spectrum protect, official support for RedHat 8

    Hi. There is a need to use RedHat 8 servers. Lacking support for backups on Spectrum Protect
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

    CES NFS - ganesha_stats improvements

    It's difficult to troubleshoot client related issues from the CES cluster. Need a command that output a list of the top clients by amount of operations on the shares. It's necessary in case of situations when clients create load that impedes the r...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Prioritising tape replication by catagory/dataclass

    Currently data replication is performed on a fifo algorithm so as soon as a tape is available and there is a spare replication thread the tape will start to replicate. We have a situation where we have batch jobs that use a tape category for large...
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Support for GFS2 file systems

    Support for GFS2 file systems. Customer tested the backup and restore of GFS2 FileSystems and the attributes are not restored. Then, the current solution is not valid
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Enhancements for DS8000 REST API

    We are using REST API to get configuration data out from the DS8000 storage system.We would like to have more API request types to get also security informations from DS8000.We need to know the active authentication policy with properties, informa...
    about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

    Session status failed -99 received before schedule duration not ended

    Hello, Description: Please be informed that when some SP client is reboot (Because OS patching) during the backup, SP server report event "failed -99". 6/12/24, 22:23:34 ANR0480W Session 2335563 for node [Node_name] (Linux x86-64) terminated - con...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Use built-in hardware encryption of NVME, SSD, or HDD drives

    Currently encryption is optionally available at the 'GPFS layer': * https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.0?topic=administering-encryption While this may be useful, there is a lot of overhead in setting it up and maintaining it. Meanwhile...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Simplified descOnly support on virtual quorum node

    We should support using VM internal partition for descOnly NSD. Should not require the complexity of raw device mapping for this simple functionality, that also doesn't have any risk of data loss. I asked on the internal General Parallel File Syst...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

    Centralized include/exclude list for VM backups

    Please provide a central location for managing include/excludes for individual VMs, like a client options set.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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