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Minimal Support for Oracle Linux and DP4Oracle

We have been requested to protect Oracle Databases running onOS: Oracle linux Server 7.8DB Server: Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition Release 19.0.0.0.0 opened a case in look for minimal support but is not available.Oracle says "Oracle Linux i...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

Setting the Spectrum Scale license designation in the mmaddnode command (JUMP)

We currently have a hack in our system automation facilities for a node to set the Spectrum Scale License Designation. This can be problematic when multiple nodes attempt to change their License Designation at the same time. We would prefer GPFS t...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

A new feature called 'Fast Format' in SVC Code 7.5 level

A new feature called 'Fast Format' has been introduced in the SVC 7.5 level of code. This sets the 'format' option of new volumes on by default.During the time the volumes is formatting, the volume can still beaccessed by a host system. But for a ...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

make comprestimator available as an SVC internal command

Please can you internalise the 'comprestimator' functionality as a command within the SVC
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize Storage - Preferred node alignment for FlashCopy volumes with source volume

System: IBM Flash 9150Actor: Storage system enforce best practice When creating FlashCopy or Remote copy w/Change volumes relationships, this does not enforce the FlashCopy volume or Change Volume to be placed on the same preferred node as the sou...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Spectrum Protect Server Startup on Linux SystemD unit file

Would like a SystemD unit file for the SP server startup. Current process uses SystemV init script which runs from a user slice which inherently do not have access to all system resources. Running the application from a SystemD unit file would use...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Document regular expression APIs in REST API Guide

The regular expression APIs are not documented. Not sure why that is, since any content search policy will require a regular expression (that may not be provided by Discover product). The following do actually work despite not being documented:/po...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Delivered

DS8880 misses option to display possible and used virtual Capacity from WEB GUI

We use ESE volumes with small extents. In the WEB GUI we really miss a simple way to show the configured virtual Capacity as well as the max available virtual capacity. We suggest to add a bar beside the bar showing the physical capacity
almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Support for SP container pool storage tiering in SPP

For customers performing storage tiering between directory and cloud container pools within SP, they would like to SPP to be aware and support this functionality. For now data that has been tiered affect the primary source pool and prevent it from...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

SPP vSnap Storage Utilization report needs to run Storage Server Inventory Job automatically

When the Spectrum Protect Plus Reporting generates a report for vSnap Storage Utilization it does not use the vSnap Storage statistics from the moment the report is generated. Instead it uses the statistics of the last run of the Storage Server In...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

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