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    Provide a guide or option in Operations Center to change from tape to replserver pool protection

    The Spectrum Protect Operations Center throws an error stating the server is configured to use container-copy pools to protect data to tape, and that you can't configure replication for the server. However, neither the message, nor the built-in he...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Is a defect

    Enable messages trapping for Account Creation/Modify/Deletion to be sent via Rsyslog so we can alert on these events

    Enable messages trapping for Account Creation/Modify/Deletion to be sent via Rsyslog so we can alert on these events It is my understanding after speaking with IBM that these messages are captured but the system is only designed to send Login / Lo...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Support L3 routable secondary data networks

    Spectrum Scale was designed to support non routable secondary/private high speed data networks. Such as infiniband or 40/100GB Ethernet. The assumption being that only a limited set of servers would use the network. As our needs have grown we have...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Enable SPLITLARGEO also during LAN-Free backups

    The backups done using LAN-Free do not use the option SPLITLARGEO, so the files biggest that 10Gb are not fragmented, when using the same environment, but without LAN-Free, the backups are splitted on files less, or equal to 10G.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Add Support for Hardware Load Balancers like the F5

    We are a large bank and a large enterprise customer. Not all Open-Source software is supported. HA-Proxy is one of those not supported. But we still need to Load balance the GPFS GUI. This is a requirement when hosting Scale in OCP. We need to pla...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    VTS db2 reorg planning change

    VTS db2 reorg is statically planned. Due to client activity changes, it comes a time where reorg is planned during high VTS activity and then does not end within the required amount of time. Reorg may not be effective until many weeks. As of today...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Enhance policy handling to allow ordering of rules

    I want to delete dirs and files in a subtree depending on their mtime. Using a policy file I can identify the files and dirs and order them by DIRECTORY_HASH to ensure the correct deletion order from deepest to highest paths. This works falwlessly...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    enhance security control in Kerberos based NFS to enable changes of Group / User during TGT Renewal time

    Ganesha NFS uses Kerberos Tickets PAC to map user access control. This PAC ic valid as long as the Ticket is valid. If the user gets changed for any urgent reasons, this is realized only when TGT is invalidated and a new TGT is provided.In many ca...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Enhancements on Spectrum Scale Installation toolkit to support remote cluster configurations and updates

    Currently there are a gap in this toolkit to define remote cluster configs. We know that the code are already available in the open source stuff but not in the offical release of the installer. It should be added to simplify the current manually s...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    TSM for VE - DP for VMware - Tag support

    The ability to exlude or include VMs based on tags, or take tags into consideration somehow. Regardless of what cluster they live in, look at tags to determine what to do.
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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