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Recommision node / reverting decommission node command

Implementing a recommission node command to stop the decommission node process without restoring database.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

CTDB recovery timeout improvement

Multiple protocol nodes are stuck in wait state when pn01 is selected to be the master recovery causing loss of access of the whole cluster. However pn01 is hung and stuck due to kernel oops issue. After pn01 is rebooted and no GPFS running, pn03 ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Refresh States function should function when devices are in severe status

During a recent issue where CSM lost access to the underlying DASD (due to a warmstart), it marked some of the replicated devices in a Severe state. That state never changed, even after issuing a 'Refresh States' command. You can submit a START or...
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Is a defect

Have Spectrum CDM check UUID of the device before removal, thus avoiding the likelyhood of the wrond device being removed

When CDM creates its cleanup data for removing a copy it records the device name it used when the disks were added, for example, /dev/sdn. These device names are not persistent and as CDM does a "echo 1 > /bin/sys/block/sdn/device/delete" to re...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Add NDMP Plugin Functionality for Spectrum Scale File System Backup

Since Spectrum Scale Cluster 5.1.1 containing ESS3000 nodes can hold billions of files in a file system, its a must feature to come up with NDMP plugin in the Spectrum Scale for backup purpose to speed up the backup performance. Backing up files d...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

View VM DataStore Size when restoring VM

I would like the ability to see the size of the DataStore I am restoring to from within the Spectrum Protect Plus VM restore GUI. Right now if I want to restore to a datastore I have to open VMWARE to make sure there is enough space available on t...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Externalize Netview/GDPS Response Messages

In the current design the only facility to diagnose problems encountered in the Netview and GDPS Command/Response sequences is to repeat the migration with the SNAP option specified. This would be unnecessary if the messages were written to the JO...
over 4 years ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Future consideration

Monthly daily SPP backup report

For a given month (or period) provide daily SPP backup status (success, failed, undone). Provides single view to compute the backup SLA commonly used in outsourcing engagement.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Display information about encryption technology used in GUI & CLI encryption command

Display information about encryption technology used in GUI & in CLI encryption command - which will help customer's cybersecurity team - requested by customer. Check this thread in slack # specv-sme-se = https://ibm-systems-storage.slack.com/...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Fusion HCI Cloud Provider for OpenShift IPI

The idea here is to extend HCI+HCP platform strategy here to support IPI compatible OCP deployment. Current list of IPI supported platforms (circa OCP 4.14) By "IPI compatible" I mean HCI systems can be consumed by the openshift installer in the s...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Under review

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