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Support for Ubuntu

Redhat have now killed CentOS and there is really no option to get a cheap operating system for non critical application and small operations then Ubuntu Server or Fedora Server. And if a non critical application like IBM Spectrum Protect Operatio...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

remove DP SQL MMC configuration deficiency when handling multiple instances

The DP SQL MMC is only able to handle very simple setups with single SQL instances or multiply SQL instances backing up to a single client node. This is not realistic. When using multiply instances, one usually has to use different client nodes fo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Probes fail against Brocade Switches (v9.0.0b)

v.5.4.2: Unable to Probe Brocade Switches (v9.0.0b) - java.lang.NullPointerException/RestBrocadeSwitchProbe.run()] [ERROR] Error writing protobuf to ProbeOutput file
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Is a defect

Modify Spectrum scale GUI theme/layout to avoid security finding

Security findings: For the Wireless, open a ticket with the vendor to determine how to change the theme or layout of the web/gpfs login page and/or a feature request to change layout due to graphics definitions in the HTML matching wireless access...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

support cephfs with full ACL support

cephfs is a scalable filesystem with full posix campatibility. The need to support this filesystem with full ACL support is needed.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Domain statement honoured by archive process

Many customers need to do monthly/yearly Full backups. An archive is not an option since all filespaces to be included in the archive must be manually added. Systemstate info is not included in an archive and the DOMAIN statement is not honoured b...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

BMR -TSM client should contain a very small set of files to run on WinPE (w/o java etc)

BMR -TSM client should contain a very small set of files to run on WinPE (w/o java etc).TSM Client is bigger than the rest of a WinPE BootCD and also containing unneeded files like JAVA. This need more time to load the image into RAM during boot a...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

More ways to get occupancy on data en dedup storage

In a hosted environment it would be nice, if there were several different/more advanced ways to get occupancy amount for data stored in deduplication storage pools.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Planned for future release

Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface Driver compatibility rhel 7.4

My environment is as follows：gpfs version：Spectrum_Scale_Data_Access-5.1.0.2-x86_64-Linux-installCSI version：IBM Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface Driver 2.1.0Kubernetes version ：1.19.3 https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_C...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Add a status message to dsmwebcl.log on startup indicating POLLING or PROMPTED mode

Please add a status message to dsmwebcl.log on startup indicating whether POLLING or PROMPTED mode is being used, as well as the polling period (if polling).
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

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