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    RFE for GPFS - requirement for a non root user to be able to run their scripts under GPFS without errors / SELinux related

    It seems like there is a limitation in GPFS that a non-root user may not modify extended attributes of a file unless they are in the "user" namespace.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    CSM Topology Details Export to Not Add Spaces to CG/Session ID

    Currently when we export the CSM Topology Details if there are Sessions/CG's which are a single character long, the CSV export will export those like ' 7' instead of just as 7 which means if we are using the data in another spreadsheet, we have to...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

    Backup Client for Debian Linux

    Debian und viele andere Linuxdistributionen (z.B. Ubuntu, Univention, Knopix, ...) nutzen nicht das RedHat Packeage format rpm, sondern ein anderes Format namens .deb. Damit ist man bei der Erstellung der Pakete immer auf zusätzliche Konvertierung...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    BA/API client: Call 'vssadmin list writers' only when necessary

    Spectrum Protect Client (BA/API) V8.1.0.0 on Windows unconditionally calls 'vssadmin list writers'.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    Support to backing up MongoDB on Ubuntu servers

    We have MongoDB on Ubuntu servers and need to backup them.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Backing up prefered SQL Always-on node

    We want to be able to choose which node to backup on a SQL Always-on infrastructure.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    TSM4VE - scheduling and tagging at VM granularity

    Can we remove the following limitation ?Customer would like to use TAGGING at VM level, not at FOLDER level, without changing or replanning the whole VMs infrastructures.He would like to tag & schedule some VM to daily backup, some other (may ...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    SVC Autorestart should give timer indication in UI while suspended if it is set to restart.

    CSM 6.1.x introduced the functionality of session restart during 1720/1920 type errors. There is also a way to set a timer on how long the session will attempt a restart. CSM should have an easier way to determine if the session is pending a resta...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    modify mmsetquota to have --reset option

    We have received the subject pmr here in Spectrum Scale Level2. I read the request and It seems that customer is requesting a function similar to "mmedquota -t <fileset> --reset" ?? --resetWith this option, when grace time is modified, all r...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    CES/NFS/SMB Function Enhancements

    1) CES FO/FB timeout, shorten the io pending time in the failure of CES node failure/GPFS node failure/one of FG failure in replication mode. The io pending time should be less than 4-5s. 2) AFM/DR RPO Interval, the minimal RPO interval is 60 minu...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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