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Provide TSM Client for Ubuntu s390x zLinux

Please provide a TSM Client (Spectrum Protect Client) installer for Ubuntu on s390x
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

mmchconfig maxblocksize is not dynamically changeable

PMR TS001057386.Spectrum Scale in Version 5 has a new maxblocksize default. But to Change these for old Clusters all Daemon must be down to change these parameter. The request here mmchconfig maxblocksize should be dynamicaly changeable without co...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

When using Protocol nodes, the export IPs should be the only one to allow mounting shares

With the use of Protocol Nodes, the CES requires IPs for export shares. However, even having the IP specific for share, the internal IPs (NODE IPs), which are used for administration only, also allow the NFS Mounts. The request is to isolate the n...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Restore Functionality - Enable the recovery of VMs as an orchestrated group

Enable the recovery of VMs as a group i.e. Consistency Group or restore group for orchestration What is meant here is the ability to recover VMs in a ordered or orchestrated fashion i.e. I have 3 servers to recover an AD server, a SQL server and a...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus VADP proxy transport modes reset during code updates

During code updates, VADP proxy transport modes get reset to default - SAN, Hot-Add, NBDSSL and NBD
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Enhancement request to Spectrum Scale event alerting mechanism to allow event correlation

Spectrum Scale has long provided mechanisms to alert about events. In the past, it was common to use callbacks to do that. Today, Scale provides webhooks that can be received by consumers. Also, mmhealth today provides a good source of info about ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Protect Stgpool target to cloud container

We need protect stgpool to work with cloud containers as a target pool.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Please implement a "relabel_empty" feature similar to relabel_scratch, VTLs need it

Please implement a "relabel_empty" feature similar to relabel_scratch, VTLs need it. With the "relabel_empty" feature cartridges will be relabeled when they are assigned the status of EMPTY again after being freed up. The write from begin of tape,...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

vRealize Automation (vRA) / vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) plugin with SPP

Ability to interface SPP with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

alert on vdisk usage threshold

On ESS, we need an mmhealth alert for full (and nearly full) vdisks/NSDS There is currently warnings (default 80% full) and errors (default 90% full) for both filesystem and pools. This is good. The problem occurs when a customer at a later time e...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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