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    SSL Config for Spectrum Protect client

    SSL Config is tied to TCPS name/ip, and this must match server certificate. A different method of validating the server certificate must be present. Possibilities in the dsm.opt may beSSLCheckFingerprint = FingerprintvalueSSLCheckCommonName=Server...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    mmhealth incorrectly reports Windows nodes as FAILED

    Scale 4.2.3NSD nodes on x86, rhel7.3client nodes on x86, rhel and Windows 2012 R2When executed on NSD node, mmhealth incorrectly shows Windows node as FAILED:---# mmhealth cluster show node Component Node Status Reasons----------------------------...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

    audit drive DRIVE vol=NAME or audit vol ... drive=DRIVE

    i would be very nice to have a audit drive DRIVE vol=VOL or audit vol ... drve=DRIVE command. It's often necessary to explicit check a tape drive and there is no command to do this.
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Restore of Archive-Mailbox from Exchange via Flash Copy Manager

    Swiss National Bank is not satisfied with the answer we got for PMR 05632,031,848. We were referred to Technote 1598343 ( http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21598343 ) which states that TDP Exchange / FlashCopy Manager does not suppo...
    about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    SVC - Debug mode collection enablement

    Ability to enable an extended debug mode for gathering deep information from a cluster and a tool to provide analysis of that data for onsite review. The intent for this is to perform deep level testing prior to deployment of new code sets.
    about 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    TS3500 (3584) time synchronization (NTP)

    We have a TS3500 Tape Library and we can not set the date & time synchronization to the company's internal NTP server, there is no such option on the Web-based Administration Interface.Please give us an advice how to do this or please enhance ...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    disk names

    We would like to ask for, disk names to be visible from the AIX client. Like it can be done for the XIV, via xiv_devlist This would be usefull for us, as we have host based mirroring, so you can find out the correct pair of disks
    about 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Increase the number of Vdisks

    We are using Oracle with SVC and need to take FULL snaps of the primary luns. We also plan to replicate the primary luns but not all luns as we dont replicate Temp..etc. This is creating multiple Consistency groups for each primary lun and eating ...
    about 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Streamline total indexed objects count

    Since the introduction of the Spectrum Protect feature, Spectrum Discover does no longer report the total number of indexed objects. We see the total number of objects that are non-Spectrum Protect specific in the respective tab and we see the tot...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    Issues in IBM Spectrum Protect Operation Center Reporting

    Using IBM Spectrum Protect Operation Center Version 7.1.8.0 The "At-Risk" does not work on archives. It works solely on backups as is indicated by the message "At Risk" (Policy: A backup did not completeduring the configured status interval (by de...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

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