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SC/SI don't offer more OS options for hosts

Host objects in SI and SC have some default options for OS type and a catchall for "Other."
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Report to show backup storage by SLA

Report to show backup storage by SLA will helps us quickly check which SLA is taking up the most backup data
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Publish TSM client software via yum repository

Currently, it's possible to download the latest client-related TSM software packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS at ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v7r1/Linux/LinuxX86/BA/ It would be even better i...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Add debug kernel support to GPFS

Hi I was trying to start gpfs on a debug rhel kernel for kmemleak debugging It failed due to being unsupported. Can this support be added in future GPFS versios?
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Support DELL ECS and other for S3 lock container

Give the Avaibility to add an S3 lock container on a Dell ECS solution to improve the security. Actually it's just possible to lock the data on COS or AWS.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

NFS V4.2 Support

We need support for NFS V4.2 On the one hand, NFS V4.0 face major issues, and on the other hand in our use case we could strongly benefit from the new 4.2 features like "server-side-copy" and "sparse files"
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

AIX update Spectrum protect server instal manual to set maxuproc='4096'

I tried to "su" to tsminst1 userid, and got the following message.0403-030 the fork function failed. Too many processes allready exist.ulimit -Hc , Hd, Hf, Hn, and Ht allready set to unlimited.I ran the following command;lsattr -E -l sys0 -a maxup...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

New Fileset Attribute to Ignore Special Owning Group and Everyone Permissions

To allow applications outside our control to function properly when storing data in Spectrum Scale file and directory owners must be granted implicit control and have the ability to run chmod against files and directories they own. Depending on th...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

SPP automatically deleting Job ID when all VMs/Datastores are deselected

Spectrum Protect Plus when removing datastores or VMs from an SLA policy if you remove all the SLA policy goes into a "deleted" state on the back end and when you assign a new datastore even if it was the same one it creates a new Job ID and does ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Migrate object storage to tape

For the upcoming object interface in Spectrum Scale it should be possible to migrate object data to tape.
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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