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    DMAPI session info truncated on non-session nodes

    observed on Spectrum Scale 5.1.0 + 5.1.5 invoking dm_query_session on the session node returns session info as expected. However, invoking the same call on non-session nodes returns the first 8 bytes of session info only, followed by the NULL cha...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    DMAPI dm_getall_disp returns unexpected dispositions

    observed on Spectrum Scale 5.1.0 + 5.1.5 For the set of sessions and dispositions: M1 - session which has called dm_set_disp on the global handle to receive mount events F1 - session which has called dm_set_disp on an fs (fs1) during a mount event...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    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 ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

    Support Debian 9 with ISS 4 and 5

    Support Spectrum Scale on Debian 8 and later for ISS 4.2.3 and 5.0.0 and later.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Earlier warning for SVC UPS Battery EOL

    Banner Health is requesting MUCH earlier warning of SVC-UPS Battery EOL/Failure/Exhaustion so that planned battery replacement can occur instead of emergency battery replacement, or worse - SVC Cluster outage. If possible, several months earlier w...
    over 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    change schedules in vcenter with ie10

    i cannot changes schedules in vcenter with ie10
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Skip or Exclude Virtual Machine SRM Placeholders

    During a backup of VM's, TSM for VE does not recognize SRM Placeholders as unique and attempts to back them up like a regular VM, but since they are not true VM's, the backups fail. Need a way to have TSM for VE recognize SRM placeholders and skip...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Migrate Inactive Data from StoragePools

    Need the ability to migrate inactive data from storage pools. When large disk pools are used (typically with dedup) and these pools fill, there is no way to automatically migrate data in a selective manner. Using Age based migration rules results ...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) - SP for VE support

    My customer has deployed a new vCenter on Amazon Web Services, using VMWare on Cloud (VMC) as hypervisor. They are already migrating onpremise production machines to this environment, but even following KB https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/10...
    over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Need Practice Volume Support for SVC GM with Change Volumes

    Need the ability to have CSM manage copysets in SVC GM that include change volumes and practice volumes.
    over 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

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