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parallel exec mmnfs command

We need Spectrum Scale to have this capability that to exec parallel mmnfs export.As the PMR TS001242955 said: "When using mmnfs export command, it will modify and update export configuration in CCR repository. And we know, the CCR DB update requi...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Store backup CRs with Application

CRs should be stored with the application namespace so they are versioned with application and backed up as part of the namespace backup. Storing the backup CRs with the Backup namespace means restore is limited to clusters that are manage by the ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

FS7200 Proxy UI Test Function

FS7200 Proxy UI menu shows false information
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

Operations Center does not allow a Container-Copy to be defined on a Directory Pool which Node Reps to a server using Cloud

When a Directory Container Pool is using Node Replication to replicate to a server which stores received data in a Cloud Container Pool, the Operations Center GUI does not all a Copy-Container Pool to be defined to allow a PROTECT STGPOOL to tape ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Moving backupsets between device types

We are moving to a tapeless Tivoli environment. We have many backupsets on LTO cartridges that need to be kept forever (so they say). I need a method of moving these backupsets to a disk device type. This will keep us from having to keep an LTO dr...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Request to support kernel version 5.4.15.x

Our OEM parnter Inspur Electronic Information were resold many ECE cluster to their customers. One of key issue is limited kernel supported in Storage Scale. Their customer need flexible support policy to kernel version. Their customer need to use...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE: Enhance Scheduling

Enhance the limitations of the ‚options=‘-Flag of TSM Schedules.Today: 512 Characters Limitation. Must be >= 2048 Characters to cover more than 30 VMs per schedule
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Provide a way to show running TSM scripts and to cancel them

Currently there is now way to show which TSM scripts have been startet and furthermore they cannot be stopped. The only way to finish a script prematurely is to cancel every process that is startet by the script or to define exit conditions such a...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

systemd init scripts with BA client on linux platforms

Given that all supported Linux platforms by the Tivoli Storage Manager B/A client have shifted to systemd init, provide both systemv and systemd startup scripts and either make a decision at install time or let users choose which method to use aft...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

Need FS9200 to support SCSI PR Read Full Status at SPC-3 Standard

Client wishes to implement FS9200 with RHEL HA Clustering. For success they need FS9200 to support Read Full Status Service action (03h) and perhaps yet unknown other functionality that comes with SPC-3.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release