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SET FILESPACEATRISKINTERVAL

Requesting a new command, and related alerting/monitoring and opcenter handling. SET FILESPACEATRISKINTERVAL node_name filespace,filespace,filespace [NAMEType=FSID|SERVER|UNICODE] TYPE=[DEFAULT|BYPASSED|CUSTOM] Interval=value
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Allow Windows Server to re-export Spectrum Scale mount and serve SMB/CIFS

Allow a Windows NSD client (server licensed) to share the Spectrum Scale mount it has from a Windows NSD Server.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize: SCSI ID consistency and uniqueness

#1 Host-clusters ensure SCSI ID consistency for volumes presented to clustered servers; when volumes are migrated to non-clustered storage systems the consistency needs to be maintained. This consistency is critical for VMware stability #2 When mu...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale make inodes allocated to root file system able to be reallocated.

We would like to request an enhancement that will allow for inodes already allocated to the root file system to be reallocated to independent file sets.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

DS8000 "Service Required" with Yellow components / orange triangle with an exclamation mark should occur ONLY IF IBM support is needed.

Customer First-Level-Operations has to manage multiple Systemes (including DS8000 with SIMs, SNMP-Traps and more). In case of any alert First-Level-Operations checks the situation by Messages and is using the GUI https://ip-addr/DS8000/gui#dashboa...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Initial config

Initial config does not state that ethernet requires access to vmkernel network. A quick test during config can fix this. Otherwise you need to add a nic, find cli user/password and manually config the new nic. Best practice is to have one mgmt ni...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Eliminate the use of ssh and sudo wrappers

In most installations sshd PermitRootLogin is required to be NO for security reasons.That means sudo wrappers must be used. We do not use linux provided sudo but a vendor provided replacement that is centrally managed and auditable. We've had a di...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

NDMP Restore function for normal GUI client

Please implement NDMP filelevel restore functions in the normal GUI client like they were in the webgui client.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect : Protect stg from Directory container to Cloud Container

Current TSM do not support Protect STG from Directory container to Cloud container. with Cloud Teiring its support Move of the data from directory container to Cloud container, but we dont have a way to only copy of the data. When you dont have lo...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 7 Not under consideration

rc.dsmcad RC script should be able to stop individual dsmcad processes

TSM for VE datamover server requires multiple dsmcad RC scripts.The TSM for VE installation manual descripts how to copy the rc.dsmcad script into /etc/init.d and name it something different and how to change the export statements.The service comm...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration