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SVC custom alerting

Customer would like to change the error code 1187 to a higher severity than warning. Warning would not generate an email to let them know that they have a node down. Alternatively would like to change alerting on individual error codes.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

FILE volume locking

During the migration or stgpool backup of a FILE class storage pool, the process will 'hang' when it encounters a locked volume. The volume will remain locked if there is a long-running backup session or the client does not terminate correctly. If...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

TSM Operation Center features

The Operations Center for TSM needs some updates to become really useful:s. attached file
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 4 Not under consideration

Allow Spectrum Protect web GUI to support SSL

After we upgraded SP from version 7.1 to 8.1.3 we lost the possibility to restore NAS filer via web GUI.We need to get back the feature to restore NAS filespaces via web GUI (or if you implement that the thick BA client can do the same operation)....
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Add dsmGroupHandler calls for archive objects, or a way to retrieve the last written ObjID

dsmGroupHandle() API calls are only implemented for backup type of objects.There is only a comment in the manual saying that this can be done in other ways using archives, but no examples? The dsmEndTxn() API calls, returns the groupLeaderObjId, w...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Flash Copy Manager support for Solaris 11

Flash Copy Manager is supported for Solaris 10.x, but not for Solaris 11.x
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

SSL Config for Spectrum Protect client

SSL Config is tied to TCPS name/ip, and this must match server certificate. A different method of validating the server certificate must be present. Possibilities in the dsm.opt may beSSLCheckFingerprint = FingerprintvalueSSLCheckCommonName=Server...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

mmhealth incorrectly reports Windows nodes as FAILED

Scale 4.2.3NSD nodes on x86, rhel7.3client nodes on x86, rhel and Windows 2012 R2When executed on NSD node, mmhealth incorrectly shows Windows node as FAILED:---# mmhealth cluster show node Component Node Status Reasons----------------------------...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

TSM Client retrieval for AIX OS

Hello, We have opened the above PMR requensting a way to obtain logfiles from Operation Center 7.1.1.We have installed the Client Management Services plugin onto WIndows servers and it seemed to work.We want to execute the same operation for AIX b...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Client encryption for LAN-free to the IBM Spectrum Protect server V8.1.9.300

I need to run a backup with the option of client encryption for LAN-free to the IBM Spectrum Protect server V8.1.9.300
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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