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Address GPFS SNMP scaling limitations

When the GPFS SNMP agent is run in an environment with a large number of NSDs it is unable to process the performance data from the NSDs due to internal buffer exhaustion. The GPFS SNMP agent then becomes unresponsive and will never start up and r...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

SVC log entry when a node starts running on UPS

When AC power is lost and UPS ride through begins we post msgs to a log that is only available in the SNAP. We need messages posted in SVC error log also so that client can easily see instances where this may be occurring. Ideally, we would immedi...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Increase maximum value of archive retention field

Increase Maximum Value of Spectrum protect retention paramaters to extend retention up to 100 years. Customers in legal and compliance field require to retain and automatically delete data for 100 years. The current maximum retention is 30,000 day...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Dell VAS/Quest Authentication support

Our site uses Dell VAS to enable federated heterogeneous authentication between Windows and Linux systems. Currently this is used within Spectrum Scale's "User-Defined" authentication and works with Spectrum Scale 4.2. As per the PMR ID given in t...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

deduplication issue

Backup taking long time after winodws deduplication is enabled on windows 2012 server
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

Client should deliver a possible patch/update level of an OS

New client-versions deliver information about the OS into the TSM-server.APAR IT13056 refers to OS Windows 2012 R2 Update 1.At the moment a TSM-admin has no possibilty to see whether a client has installed this update or not.Only the user of the c...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

FCM for APMM

Need FCM solution for Oracle 12 C RAC CDB/PDB database
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

mmcesdr secondary config should create NFS exports without RW access to all clients

Please can you modify mmcesdr secondary config so that it creates secure NFS exports (for use by AFM) by only exporting to the gateways of the primary cluster, and not all clients. When mmcesdr is used (mmcesdr secondary config) to set up the seco...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support of AIX V7R2 with TSM V7R1 (latest version)

The requirement is a support of of AIX V7R2 with TSM V7R1 (latest version).Current, TSM V7R1 has support AIX V7R1. AIX V7R2 isn't included.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to remove replication for a fileset via mmcesdr

This RFE is to provide the ability to remove replication for a fileset via mmcesdr. This is very messy to do manually. mmcesdr can be used to set up replication for an NFS or SMB exported fileset, and indeed expect to manage all aspects of AFM set...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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