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Changing dynamic pagepool can cause the system to hang

The proposed changes to prevent system hang are as follows: 1. The code checks for available memory and if the available memory is less than the requested value, return the value users can change 2. As it takes time to allocate memory, the code re...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

Replication hung sessions are not getting cancelled on source and target TSM automatically after network disruptions

Replication sessions are getting hung due to network disruption and those sessions are not getting cancelled when the network issue is resolved. It took almost 4 hours for those sessions to get cancelled by TSM server which delayed DR replication ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

Support for TLS on SMTP servers (Office 365)

If a customer using office365, mails from SPP using office 365 can't be sent, because TLS SMTP is not supported.Support for TSL SMTP is needed.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Migrateexts - Spectrum Virtualize documents mistake

Due to description of command migrateexts in documentation there is no mention that in case of extant migration to unmanaged disks this operation lead to fail down system with all nodes restarting to T2 recovery. This issue was solved only at 8.3....
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

support for runnign VMs in GPFS (see TS003291090)

See TS003291090 If a KVM host runs GPFS client and mounts a filesystem from a gpfs cluster. The KVM host runs a VM which uses a container file stored in the same file system under a independent fileset named kvm01 which is under the root fileset. ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

Journal Based Backup Stall

In this case, the journal database was not updating and so backups became stale until a Full Incremental was run. This request is for a monitoring alert for when the journal db does not receive any updates, perhaps in the last 24 hours.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Is a defect

SPP BUG - Unable to remove a Schedule from a Report

After defining a schedule on a report, the schedule cannot be removed. If you 'untick' the schedule there is no option to click 'Save'. For custom reports, the workaround is the delete the report and start again, but for the default reports there ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Spectrum Protect Enhanced Schedule for Months with 5 Weekends

Need another option to schedule backup Jobs for months with 5 weekends in a month ,
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

DS8886 CSM LDAP advanced tab should not be locked down

Our LDAP environment currently requires that we use advanced settings when setting up CSM on the DS8886 for LDAP access. In the CSM setup there is a tab labeled basic and another one labeled advanced. During initial setup we use the Basic tab to e...
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Is a defect

Properly manage Archive Mode flag in TS1150/TS1155 tape drives

The IBM TS1150 and TS1155 Enterprise tape drives has a configuration setting called Archive Mode [1] which controls whether archive mode unthread (also called low tension refresh) should be performed on tape unload. In recent firmwares [2] the def...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

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