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Provide alternatives to using clear text user credentials in scripts and Windows started tasks for snapshots via CLI/Cmdlets

When performing snapshot operations via the Spectrum Snapshot CLI/Cmdlets, appropriate user credentials are required for remote mount commands. Currently, users must include these credentials in clear text when using a scripting solution to automa...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Change FlashCopy Mapping naming behaviour with SVC/Storwize Dynamic Target Allocation

FCM 4.1 with SVC/Storwize Dynamic Target Allocation (DTA) will fail when the FlashCopy source vDisk name is very long. The corresponding name for the FlashCopy Mapping will then be too long and FCM DTA will fail.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

Fine control for node replication of databases

When database RPO is 24hrs or more, it makes no sense to replicate the database transaction logs (Oracle, MSSQL, DB2). Transaction logs do not deduplicate and therefore accounts for a significant overhead in cross-site replication. It would be goo...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Need TSM client timeout

There should be some way to automatically recover from issue when TSM client could not communicate to TSM server in the middle of the session.Imagine the situation:1. Archive session was started from the client2. Client successfully connected to t...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

Delete schedule via VMCLI

We use VMCLI to schedule "run now" schedules in TSMVE via a custom script. After a few days the schedule page in the web gui is full and will not load. We want the ability to remove (now) schedules via VMCLI so that we can cleanup the schedule lis...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Please provide hard memory limit settings for Spectrum Scale mmfsd process

It would be very beneficial if mmfsd could be configured with a hard limit on its memory usage.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Address GPFS SNMP scaling limitations

When the GPFS SNMP agent is run in an environment with a large number of NSDs it is unable to process the performance data from the NSDs due to internal buffer exhaustion. The GPFS SNMP agent then becomes unresponsive and will never start up and r...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

SVC log entry when a node starts running on UPS

When AC power is lost and UPS ride through begins we post msgs to a log that is only available in the SNAP. We need messages posted in SVC error log also so that client can easily see instances where this may be occurring. Ideally, we would immedi...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Increase maximum value of archive retention field

Increase Maximum Value of Spectrum protect retention paramaters to extend retention up to 100 years. Customers in legal and compliance field require to retain and automatically delete data for 100 years. The current maximum retention is 30,000 day...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Dell VAS/Quest Authentication support

Our site uses Dell VAS to enable federated heterogeneous authentication between Windows and Linux systems. Currently this is used within Spectrum Scale's "User-Defined" authentication and works with Spectrum Scale 4.2. As per the PMR ID given in t...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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