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CES-S3 Glacier Support for Spectrum Archive managed Scale Cluster

Enhancement of using our implemented solution on base of ESS, Storage Scale and Storage Archive environments.
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Create Reports for Data which is send to Object Storage for single Clients / Servers

Hello actually we need to create Reports for Data which is sent from SPP to TSM Object Storage within additional copies and archives. I can not find a report type in SPP which supports the report for data amounts for additional copies / archives. ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

Scale ECE - optimize the efficiency of swapd processing, and ensure consistency in file access

Current Issue: A directory A is created on GPFS Client 1. Then on Client 2, directory A is accessed and a subdirectory B is created inside it. If directory A is subsequently deleted and recreated on GPFS Client 1, attempting to create subdirectory...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Add additional options for securing the backup locations when using azure blob storage

Currently the product uses the storage account name and key when configuring a backup location on azxure blob stoarge. The recommended way to use azure blob storage described by microsoft is to create a service principal that is used to acess the ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Interactive performance charts

My general approach to performance cases is to select a rough wide timeline, and then to zoom in on the time of interest. The time selection in SI is a bit fiddly and not always the best user experience, especially if you have to do it multiple ti...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Syslog messages forwarded to a syslog server have to be encrypted by TLS protocol

in our data centers syslog messages have to be encrypted. we got an open risk because Tape Libraries send syslog messages unencrypted to the syslog server.
about 2 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 0 Under review

Enable STG RULES to perform dual copy to tape of Object Client data

There is currently a limitation in the product whereby the STG Rules feature cannot be used to create double copies of Object Client data received from IBM FUSION using the Amazon S3 protocol. The only option available to copy this type of data is...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

For Storage Protect Backup/Archive client add a dsmcad systemd unit file that is instance aware.

Sometimes it is useful to run multiple dsmcad instances on a single host. Each will backup different file spaces to different tsm backup nodes. To accomplish this additional dsmcad systemd unit files must be created. systemd unit files have this t...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Drive letter definition per Windows client.

Currently Windows client mount drive letters can only be defined when a cluster is created. This is inflexible if a drive letter is not defined on a cluster and Windows clients need adding later. The only workaround is to create a remote cluster t...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

gskcrypt64-8.0.55 rpm packages require invalid binary files /bin/ln and /bin/sh

For a long time RHEL has provided both /bin/X and /usr/bin/X even though the packages only install /usr/bin/X This is true for RHEL7, RHEL8 and RHEL9 The gskcrypt64 package should have been changed a long time ago to require /usr/bin/X components ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

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