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Allow migration of Local Page DS volumes

Active Local Page DS volumes are the only volumes that cannot be migrated by TDMF. However, when all active local pages on a volume are set into Drain mode (read only), there should no longer be I/O to the volume that TDMF cannot handle. TDMF coul...
over 2 years ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Future consideration

File restore GUI: Microsoft Windows user account cannot access its own user folders

When using File Restore GUI to restore single files to a Windows vm you get an access denied error when trying to restore files and folders protected by UAC. This can be profile folders (C:\Users) or the DATA folder in a SQL instance. The problem ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Scheduler should skulk "In Progress" events and vcenter jobs

If DSMC aborts after completing a filespace or VM backup, but before sending the backup summary, then the events table will forever show "In Progress". Further, for VM backups, vcenter will perpetually show the backup as running. When a scheduler ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Data Integrity Verification during storage pool hierarchy (copy/migration)

We use IBM TSM for our long term data archives (company asset), and we regularly copy the primary storage pool (tape) to copy-storage pool (tape), mainly for Disaster Recovery. In addition, IBM TSM migrates data from pool to pool as a regular proc...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Support for Windows Client nodes in AFM Cache Cluster

Require support for Spectrum Scale Windows client nodes with AFM Cache clusters.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Consider SFP specification (LW, ELW, SW) port speed as attribute for alerting creation

SI allow to create alerting related to SFP spec like power or DB, these spec my differ depending of the type of SPF in use Alerting creation should allow to to specify the type of SFP when creating an alerting some spec are as well related to the ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Changing dynamic pagepool can cause the system to hang

The proposed changes to prevent system hang are as follows: 1. The code checks for available memory and if the available memory is less than the requested value, return the value users can change 2. As it takes time to allocate memory, the code re...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

VMware Linux File-Level Restore Using Active Directory Domain Login ID

VMware Linux File-Level Restores does not allow for Microsoft Active Directory Domain based User Logins with Multifactor Authentication.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Restore virtual machine WITHOUT recovering specific disks

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V suite offers the option to exclude certain disks when restoring a virtual machine. See page 159 of the "IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Version 8.1.9 - ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Rolling upgrade of CES protocol node with object services

Current operation: Because object operations interact with all nodes, all object nodes must be at the same level. Therefore, object services need to be stopped across the cluster for the duration of the upgrade. This RFE is for allowing rolling up...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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