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    Enable support for signing kernel modules for the GPFS portability layer

    We need a way to have GPFS client code to support signing the GPFS portability layer kernel modules so it is possible to run with secureboot enabled. In the FAQ it is listed to be disabled or handled manualy. We would request that the Spectrum Sca...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    Support for SLES 15 using Spectrum Protect DP for HANA

    I need a statement of support for DP for ERP SAP HANA on SLES 15
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Planned for future release

    When converting/migrating to container pool, add option to uncompress/dedup/compress legacy-compressed data

    When migrating/converting legacy storage pools to the new container-type storage pool, it should be possible to specify on the command line, that "legacy" data during migration/conversion should be uncompressed, dedupped (if not already dedupped) ...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Restore of backed up Hyper-V VMs from a replica source where replica vm name is the same may fail

    Based on APAR IT34036, backing up Hyper-V VMs from a replica source where replica vm name is the same as the original virtual machine name can result in data to become unrecoverable because the state of the original vm and the replica may differ (...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Streamline command line parameters

    mmhealth knows --unhealty. mmvdisk pdisk list knows --not-ok. Both essentially are meaning the same: only display the problematic stuff. I constantly keep confusing these two and use the wrong one. So I suggest to support both for all commands the...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Restore are very slow

    Querying of Exchange backups is very slow in a large environments. E.g. in environment with 100+ Exchange mailbox databases and 200 backups per each it take nearly 3 hours. This causes that restores are terribly slow.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

    Dependent snapshots support (with excluding filters for independent snapshots)

    For filesystems with large ramifications into independent filesets and then several thousands of dependent filesets, it sometimes becomes cumbersome to manage snapshots at the independent fileset level. Allowing also the ability to do the other wa...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Scale REST API Endpoint for mmafmconfig

    We need a way that the Spectrum Scale REST API exposes the mmafmconfig command. In particular the mmafmconfig enable <fileset> is important for us.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Use the logged on User ID from the CSM GUI for authority checking rather than the STC user from the CSM Server

    If an update is made from the (e.g.) portpairing.csv from the CSM Web Interface (Version 6.2.8) there is no security checking whether if this user has the necessary permission to update this file. The update will be with the STC User from the CSM ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 6 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 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Functionality already exists

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