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Node Replication Status

When a node fails to replicate, it is nearly impossible to determine why it failed. You have to open a PMR and gather logs and usually have to bring in level II support. This is a big waste of both my and IBM supports' time.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SPP SSL Certificate upload needs significant improvement

The process to upload an SSL certificate for Spectrum Protect Plus is unclear and misleading. The "manage your certificates" upload screen in the admin console states that the supported certificate format are cer and crt. These are also listed as ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Enhance REST API to GET/SET all availabe Filesystem Parameter i.e --auto-inode-limit

CNSA requires filesystemes with option --auto-inode-limit to be enabled. That Option is currently not available via REST API "get /scalemgmt/v2/filesystems/{filesystemName}". We utilize the REST API to verify all required storage parameter before ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

SVC 2145-DH8 Use IMM port for remote access/control

SVC Nodes are commonly installed in multiple Data Centers, not all Data Centers have a support personnel at all times, and in certain circumstances the SVC Nodes require physical access in order to Reboot the Nodes. Currently the IMM Port of the S...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Host outages during SVC Codeupgrade: Missing Warning for misconfiguration and missing SVC check – command

All backend-paths of each mdisk needs to have the same Host-LUN-ID (SCSI-ID). In case of different IDs on different paths of the same mdisk, SVC does accept this without a warning. But during a SVC Code-Upgrade, this leads to a offline-SVC-pool-si...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Support for SQL on Linux

SQL DBA's do a research for using MS SQL on Linux for Big Databases
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SpectrumScale should be able to natively mount at any point in the name space of a filesystem using GPFS client

GPFS/SpectrumScale using the native GPFS client cannot mount at any location in a filesystem in a multi-tenanted environment in any way other than at the root level, exposing the entire filesystem to a client. GPFS should ideally offer the ability...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

CSM - Automatically Synchronise Standby Server Sessions After IPL.

We have two DS8000 Controllers in a full MM - Hyperswap Configuration. We have two CSM Sessions running on two different LPARS in our SYSPLEX. ( LPAR1 (Primary ) and LPAR2 (Standby) ) We observe that after IPL of the LPAR2 ( Configured as the Stan...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Ansible Toolkit with exclude support on install and deploy

In the heterogene world of scale cluster we see more and more an requirement to put different versions of scale because of new deployments of OS (rhel) and other decisions and dependencies.The current toolkit installation missed this feature to ad...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

fix column widths in dsmadmc interactive screen output

When using dsmadmc for SP management, the screen output quality looks often still like from previous century. Especcially number columns are often too narrow even when there is plenty of console width still available. This leads to wrapped numbers...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

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