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Global Preferences Option to ignore alerts for skipped RDM and independent disks

Currently if a backup job runs and a VM has RDMs or independent disks these flag an error and are skipped and the job is marked as partial rather than completed so flags alerts in the dashboard. A customer has asked for this to be an option in glo...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

include/exclude a directory structure from archive

include.archive and exclude.archive options do not work for a directory structure. F.i. it is possible to exclude files from directory /exampleDir using definition 'exclude.archive "/exampleDir/*"' and also from all its subdirectories using defini...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Future consideration

SVCDTA DB2 cancel restore

When restore of DB2 is executed, there is no possibility to cancel restore and try with another one, until restore is completed in background.We use NOCOPY option for backup. FMM19183E IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot adapter for the SAN Volume Contr...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Multiple databases managed by a single instance

Known Issues and Limitations Specific to the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for DB2 Component. If there are multiple databases managed by a single instance, only one of these databases can be protected by IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot.
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Snapshot directories should be separate mountpoints or snapshotted files should have unique inode numbers

In Linux, files in Spectrum Scale snapshots have the same device id(st_dev) and inode number (st_ino) as their live counterparts. Theyhave the same device because all snapshots in a filesystem are under thesame mountpoint as the live version of th...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

File Access Logging support for read only remote mounts

File Access Logging in Spectrum Scale 5.1 eliminates the need for kafka, but it only works if the filesystem is mounted read/write. So a remote cluster with a RO mount is not supported by FAL.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Changes for ISP Server/Client

Will there be an Systemd-Daemon file one day for better controlling of the system processes of the ISP software?Because the ISP server and client software haven't yet an native systemd-daemon and are using still the old SysV-Init-Daemon files whic...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SP server output file ownership/permissions

SP can output several types of files. For example, DRM recovery plans, backing up devconfig or volhist, select command output, etc. We can already control where to direct the output, i.e., directory structure and filename. Having the ability to al...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Cluster Export Services support on AIX

Cluster Export Services are supported only in a Linux environment. I want to use an AIX environment and use AIX servers as SMB, NFS, and Object Protocol nodes.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Smaller CES configuration

CES nodes support a lot of connections - but require excessive amount of memory, even when the amount of connections planned is a lot lower.128 GB as minimum for a node providing both NFS and SMB is way too much.It would be good to have support fo...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

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