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ESS GL6s RG failover take more than 5 minutes

When customer does final ESS GL6s acceptance test, they power off one of ESS I/O node, find that RG failover take more than 5 minutes which is longer than expected.Customer want to know what's the major bottle neck and enhance the whole RG failove...
almost 6 years ago in ESS 1 Is a defect

mmnetverify fails ungracefully when --target-node is Windows node

When run from Scale node on x86 RHEL 7.3 (x86), mmnetverify fails ungracefully when --target-node is a Windows node.Moreover, it fails inconsistently when used with the node's "Scale" interface vs. the Admin node name, providing additional confusion.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

Hung Process control

During the time of impact to the GUI we encountered an issue with generating support saves which slowed down and increased delays in recovery. If there was a method to kill the current running process used for the support save collection, it might...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !

If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Is a defect

Refresh States function should function when devices are in severe status

During a recent issue where CSM lost access to the underlying DASD (due to a warmstart), it marked some of the replicated devices in a Severe state. That state never changed, even after issuing a 'Refresh States' command. You can submit a START or...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Is a defect

FS7200 Proxy UI Test Function

FS7200 Proxy UI menu shows false information
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

SpecVirt location field doesn't allow non-alphanumeric chars

The "location" field in Spec Virt products doesn't allow for non-alphanumeric chars.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

DECOMMISSION NODE' is not updating RETENTION RULE

Retrule contains decom vm nodes which result in failed retention set copy.Decommission node do not update retention rule so that every decomission node action requires a manual maintenance for the retention rule
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Is a defect

Probes fail against Brocade Switches (v9.0.0b)

v.5.4.2: Unable to Probe Brocade Switches (v9.0.0b) - java.lang.NullPointerException/RestBrocadeSwitchProbe.run()] [ERROR] Error writing protobuf to ProbeOutput file
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Is a defect

dsm.opt file getting blanked out when disk is full

We have observed couple of times that on Windows BA client dsm.opt file is getting banked out. dsm.opt size becomes 0 bytes and file is empty. We are using node replication. When disk is full and node replication is being used then while running b...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Is a defect

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