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node canister replacement fix procedure

The Run fix to replace the canister is missing a step.It doesn't run the "satask chbootdrive -replacecanister" under the covers or mention that the command needs to be run on the replacement node. The instructions are in the Knowledge Center but w...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Ad hoc snapshot which is generated from daily backup for weekly / monthly / Yearly

Spectrum Protect Plus Ad hoc snapshot which is generated from daily backup for weekly / monthly / Yearly Currently we need to create new SLA for create additional weekly / monthly / yearly which need additional backup windows time and additional s...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

GENERATE BACKUPSET hang on huge amount of data

Based on PMR 54452,740,740, we would like to modify the DB2 schema/indicies, or else to able to generate backupset with huge amount of data stored under a single node.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

VADP Proxy should be available as an appliance

The SPP server is available as an appliancevSnap server is available as an appliancebut VADP Proxy requires install of RHEL and installation of VADP Proxy software.This doesn't make any sense since the VADP Proxy already are part of the SPP server...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Have Spectrum Protect Plus integrate with Automated Ticket System

The customer has a desire for the alert system to interface with the Automated Ticketing System. This would allow that system to assign and notify individuals to respond to incidents on SPP
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum virtulize should generate alert before rebuilding of a failed disk

One of our customer have large infrastructure of IBM Storage deployed ,where IBM FS 840 /FS 900 / SVC / IBM V7000 / IBM FS 9150 / IBM FS 9200 installed across India. Although we have call home configured and working for all devices , fault like di...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Storwize should automatically mark errors repaired

SVC, Storwize: When hardware fails and is replaced on Storwize, the system should recognize the replacement and mark the error as fixed automatically. This is performed by a CE on the Enterprise supported systems. But on customer managed systems t...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Functionality already exists

Expand "SET FAILOVERHLADDRESS" to node granularity

On Server Version 7.1 a function "SET FAILOVERHLADDRESS " was introduced to allow the failover IP to be different then the IP used for replication, this is a step in the right direction. However on TSM Servers with multiple IP's with clients in di...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support for TLS on SMTP servers (Office 365)

If a customer using office365, mails from SPP using office 365 can't be sent, because TLS SMTP is not supported.Support for TSL SMTP is needed.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

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