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    IBM to support Mellanox version 5.3x in clients running with ESS at 4.9 or later i.e mixed OFED versions can be greater than

    Tram asked me to open RFE for Ford Hi Ron, Doug has asked if you can open a RPQ for IBM to support Mellanox version 5.3x in clients running with ESS at 4.9 or later i.e mixed OFED versions can be greater than -2Ford has opened a Mellanox ticket on...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    add fromdate/todate option to the command "delete backup <vm> -objtype=vm "

    the fromdate / todate option is available for many delete backup commands but not for -objtype=vm We had cases where the expire inventory did not cleanup the vm backups ( when using replicate node ) , in order to fix this , we have to use the dele...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    New combination in SSIC for storage 2145-DH8

    We require new Host and storage combination to be tested as the same combination is not reflecting in SSIC.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Allow custom configuration of Spectrum Scale scanner

    Allow the specification of Spectrum Scale "mmapplypolicy" command details to tailor the scanning granularity for Spectrum Discover. E.g. do not scan snapshots by e.g. not scanning the .mmsnapshot directory.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

    FLR from VM target replicated via Vsnap

    In case that SLAs which replicate the backups. Then, if SPP restores a file or directory, this file or directory is always restored from the Vsnap source in case of the Vsnap replication. It should have the option to restore the file from Vsnap so...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    fuser is missing in ESS deployment on ESS3200

    opened corresponding issue No: 277001 customer needs fuser reason .. mmumounting file system may give you a hard time figuring out, who is using a mounted SG
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    REPLICATE NODE - option to mark on the remote server only the expired data

    REPLICATE NODE command does not have an option to replicate (mark on the remote server) only the expired content.The expired content of a nodename is processed during the scan of the nodename, sometimes it seems that it is processed at the end of ...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

    Get actual data size of data stored using API

    TSM should provide the actual size of the data object stored using the TSM API. Possible solutions:A) update the size value after the transfer completes with the actual size (preferred).B) introduce a second size value (one: allocated, other: actu...
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

    granular user roles for CSM

    We need a possibility to create custom roles in CSM.Within these roles we would like to define what tasks are available for the users.For instant a user who can resync the HA relationship after an IPL. Or a user who can trigger a hyperswap and Sta...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Extend DEEP INSPECT model (SDK and Appliance) to allow user to send metadata to the application.

    Today, one can create a Discover deep-inspect agent/application that executes operations on a Scale file system. As an example, there is an application available on github to collect the Scale user-defined attribute and assign it to a Discover tag...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

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