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Support for multiple daemon networks

Currently GPFS has a major networking restriction which is (from the developer works site): When configuring a GPFS cluster you start by defining an IP address that can be used for all nodes to communicate. This is the IP address that you specify...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Ability to Schedule report

Ability to define scheduling of Reports in SPP 10.1.2
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

DS8000 Volume groups can't be manage in GUI

IBM DS8000 Storage server use Volume Groups for managing connectivity to Open servers (including IBMi). In the new GUI Volume Groups not presented.Old (previous) GUI removed from V9.So only way to manage VG with CLI. It will be nice to insert VG m...
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Mechanism on devices to collect logs and send to IBM support

Problem description: Mechanism on every device to automatically collect logs and send to IBM support.Current workaround: Gather logs and upload to ecurep or direct to PMR
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Password complexity and expiration

For the local user IDs on SVC, it would be good to have password properties that increased the complexity of the password as well as being able to include a time event that expires the password.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

ESS and Spectrum Scale version numbers don't line up

As it stands today, ESS version numbers do not match the version of Spectrum Scale installed on the ESS. This is confusing. As an example, ESS version 5.3 is Scale version 5.0.3.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Snapdifferntial backups for Netapp data on tap cluster mode (c-mode)

Tivoli Storage Manager Backup/Archive ClientNetapp Filer CIFS and NFS share backups.Currently Netapp snapshot functionality can be used by TSM to perform snap differential backups. This is particularly useful for large file systems with millions o...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

[BDA] Hadoop transparency, Support for native Ranger encryption

Moving in to container based workloads we see many use cases for SCALE integration in to Hadoop. At the moment we are missing one critical functionality and that is the use of object based encryption trough Hortonworks Ranger with Scale Transparen...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Spectrum Protect Plus Logging

Having only the GUI to see which backups are currently running or having only the Reports after a successful backup, I'd appreciate to get the Information displayed as well using the REST API or commandline.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Storage pool Protect query

The Protect command In Spectrum Protect writes data to a target storage pool. There is no way to display the 'protected' data that resides in the target pool. Something like Q OCC PROTECT nodename/stgpoolname . And it would also be nice to know ah...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

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