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Add callback for hard quota limit reached.

It would be useful to have a callback option for when hard quota limits where reached. While softQuotaExceeded and usageUnderSoftQuota are very useful, we would like to have an option to register a call back to be notified if a USR, GRP, or FILESE...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Spectrum Protect Disk Migration single thread

In a disk storage pool with only 1 node the migration process from Disk to tape is single threaded. The only way today around this is to use File device classes. We would prefer not to use File devices classes as these add other overheads. There i...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Non disruptive volume migration between Storwize devices

I would like to migrate hosts between members of the Storwize family without needing an outage on each host. The current methods for this are either through image mode migration or replication. Both of these methods require an outage on the host t...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

License Data via RestAPI

Scale will soon only be license via TB and not via Sockets. This mean we need to update the way how to keep control of our license status and by that we also want to move away from Clients / Agent based License tools to more web based license tool...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Rename TPC-R sessions

We would like a way to rename TPC-R sessions in case they have not been named according to our convention. We understand that the ability to rename sessions was deliberately kept out, but it's a feature we could use in emergencies.
about 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

DS8000 - Copy Services support for LUN sizes greater than 2 TB.

Currently, DS8000 Copy Services are not supported for LUN sizes that are greater than 2 TB. This limit is restrictive. In today's environment of ever increasing datasets it is time that Copy Services support LUN sizes greater than 2 TB. I would re...
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Spectrum Scale Proxy Support for PCI compliance

Client uses Scale as object storage for IBM FileNet P8 to store auto insurance claim objects. Project is to archive objects using TCT and iCOS
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Remove mandatory parameters database_name and instance_name for mount/unmount operations of Oracle and OraSAP

For the mount operation of Oracle and OraSAP snapshots without TAPE_BACKUP_PENDING usability state, the parameters "-d database_name" and "-i instance_name" are mandatory, but actually not needed. The backup_id parameter should be enough to find o...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Delivered

Increase password length for LDAP users to 50+ (currently 30)

When using LDAP as a remote authentication method, only users with a password length of <= 30 can login. If a password is longer, the login does not work.
about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Delivered

Spectrum Scale GPFS support for Splunk

GPFS is not a supported file system by vendor Splunk
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

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