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Detecting bad network connection and perform preventive Action.

When there is a Bad Network connection there is a possibility of receiving malformed or out of sequence Commands. The Spectrum Virtualize products are reacting to this anomaly by rebooting themselves, sometimes both nodes rebooting simultaneously....
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

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 ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

SPP: use OpenJDK for vSnap VADP Proxy

Currently SPP installs openJDK pkg during installation and upgrade phase. However Oracle Java is still beign used for VADP proxy of vSNAP server. Due to licensing we would appreciate if only one Java has been used.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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

TSM Missed backup status used to have a completion time of when the event missed now it's blank since 6.2.3. Please add back

Product: Tivioli Storage Manager Server Version 6, Release 2, Level 3.0 This is specific to a Missed backupWhen a backup has Missed the timestamp is recorded in the actlog but when executing the QUERY EVENT it is not recorded. We would like the co...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Is a defect

show rebuild V7000 under running tasks

As you can see we've had a hard disk with a lot errors. We've changed the hdd with a new one and reset the disk status back to spare disk. After this the array began to rebuild, but you can't see anything under the GUI of the V7000. Only with a sp...
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Is a defect

ESS GUI in mix env (emsp9 & emsp8)

In mix env where there is EMS P8 + ESS GL systems, and EMS P9 + ESS5K/ESS3K, we can not move to 1 EMS P9 as active GUI - since it report old HW as unknown state.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Is a defect

Moving a node to another domain should not remove it from the backup schedule automatically.

Logically the command to move the node to another domain should have failed until I removed the node from the current backup schedule as the domain is tied to the schedule. Or I would expect a message prompting to continue informing me that the no...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Is a defect

File permission - default at 666, change to 644

The following have permissions set (by default) to 666: /etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.crl/etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.rdb/etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.kdb Setting at 644 works for root user. It is possibl...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

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----------------------------...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect