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GPFS mmbackup engine enhancement / mmbackup needs to support newline char

Out of several PMRs with this customer it turned out that mmbackup command does not support newline characters (\n) when used in filenames. As example - ....steinerj/ASTest2/ASTest/yolo-98\n:.... - For customer this is very bad, because they have ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Limiting scan permissions for connection

Currently when scanning a connection, Spectrum Discover will index everything. Having the ability to add a connection, but exclude certain paths in that connection based on a set of criteria would be very beneficial. A similar option to how we add...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

allow versioning/history for objects of S3 clients

Allow versioning/history for objects of S3 clients. It would allow automatic expiration of older versions. This would help implementing smooth S3 backup solutions for many modern "cloud" databases and similar tools, like Postgres, MongoDB, Hashico...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

Set access for TDPO Database as read-only

a function in the TDPO that allows the database to do the same as the "set access" option for a normal node. i.e. for a possibility to grant read-onlyaccess to a backups taken with Data Protection for Oracle.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

ANR2578W and ANR2579E - Include node hostname information

One of the roadblocks we have at the moment is that the missed and failed ANR messages do not display the actual hostname of the node. ANR2578W Schedule schedule name in domain domain name for node node name has missed its scheduled start up windo...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Provide qualified third-party firmware upgrade software packages with ClevOS

ClevOS currently provides IBM branded hardware firmware upgrade packages as part of the ClevOS appliance image. It has been requested to also include similar upgrade packages for COS qualified third-party appliances, such as the HP devices and the...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Select Node, which using Encryption, from Server

We have system with nearly 11000 nodes and I would like to know as Server-Administrator, which nodes have encrypted data and can be affected by some changes.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Synchronize policy information to another SP server

There is a Spectrum Protect environment with 2 Spectrum Protect servers. Server A is the primary server to which the SP clients connect to, which stores alll SP client data in first place, and on which all SP client node information, associations ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

DECOM / DEACTIVATE by future date

Requesting DECOMM VM, DECOMM NODE and/or DEACTIVATE commands be enhanced to allow specifying a future date. This could be parsed during EXPIRE, or possibly some other operation that gives more notice. Alternatively, if DEACTIVATE could be modified...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Use Storwize disk systems as SVC/Storwize IP quorum instance

Can you enable Storwize disk systems to act as quorum IP instance - as additional optional solution how to create an IP quorum ?Use the standard IP management of the Storwize systems to connect to the related SVC- or Storwize HyperSwap clusters.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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