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Backup of subdirectories within Windows CIFS SHARES recursively processed despite of deactivation with dsmc incr subdir=no

In spite of setting the option subdir=no for incremental file backup, mounted CIFS Shares on Windows File Server will be processed recursively. The reason for this behaviour is caused by an unsuccessful execution of the NetShareGetInfo function wi...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect

RC=12 is not required for successful processing.

When the IBM Spectrum Protect backup/archive client detects that a self-signed digital certificate has expired, the expiration date is updated, but RC=12 is returned and "ANS1579E" is recorded.The process is successful and I would like RC=0 to be ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect

support for runnign VMs in GPFS (see TS003291090)

See TS003291090 If a KVM host runs GPFS client and mounts a filesystem from a gpfs cluster. The KVM host runs a VM which uses a container file stored in the same file system under a independent fileset named kvm01 which is under the root fileset. ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Replication should not hang if target pool is hung

When replicating to a cloud pool target, if a Disk to Cloud Transfer is hung, then replication hangs. Replication should have a timeout so that it can skip, abort, etc. rather than winding up locks.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

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...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

SVC and Storwize Machine Location field schould support special characters

In the GUI of the SVC / Storwize / FS systems (exception FS900) you can only use alphanumeric characters. Special characters are only possible on the command line. This should be adjusted on the GUI.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

Migrateexts - Spectrum Virtualize documents mistake

Due to description of command migrateexts in documentation there is no mention that in case of extant migration to unmanaged disks this operation lead to fail down system with all nodes restarting to T2 recovery. This issue was solved only at 8.3....
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

Cloud pool with full local cache and no network connectivity should report out of storage space, or storage access error

When the local stgpooldirs are full for a cloud pool which has an unreachable cloud provider, attempts to write into that pool should fail, rather than hang.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

Hung Disk to Cloud transfers should time out

When network connectivity to Azure is lost, Disk to Cloud transfer processes can hang. This is due to a limitation in Azure's OkHttp java API. SP should poll externally for hung sockets and time out, kill, or otherwise not hang pool operations. Si...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

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