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Spectrum Protect for HADOOP File System

There is a need for Spectrum Protect to protect Hadoop file system
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Add equivalent of "issue message" command to DSMC, so it will be logged on client as well

Recently I answered an RFP question regarding different automation techniques, including the use of Issue Message dsmadmc command to send a message to the server activity log. I realized that this functionality would be enhanced if we could issue ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Support for Grouping protocol nodes for separate workloads

Client would like the ability to group Protocol nodes for specific uses rather than having every protocol sharing every export.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Add Support for Windows Directory Junction Links / symbolic links

We "extend" disks by creating Symbolic Links using Microsoft Windows mklink.exe command. i.e.mklink /j f:\DataF\Departments\CofE-PD\PRJ\Projects\2020 k:\Data\Departments\CofE-PD\PRJ\Projects\2020 This will Create a directory junction f:\DataF\Depa...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Export operations increased to 256kB blocksize

IBM labs has detected Export operations blocksize to be a performance bottleneck.All other tape operations are said to use 256kB blocksize whilst Export operations use 32kB blocksize. The request is to start using 256kB blocksize for Export operat...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Hide snapshot directory

Hide the snapshot directory by removing its entry from the readdir(3) system call and/or getdents(2) system call. Currently snapshot directories are not actually hidden, they are fully visible but just have a name beginning with a dot. That is jus...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

ANR2034E should be INFO and not ERROR

It's annoying that there's an error logged just because I ran query mount and nothing was mounted (maybe that was a good thing). This is how it currently looks on one of our servers, 184644 counts of ANR2034E, second place is 938. That's a lot of ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Make supported use of additional samba parameters

In order to supply our storage users with the same user experience as on former SONAS share, we want to make supported use of additional sambashare parameters:# File browsinghide dot files = yes/nohide files = lost+foundhide special files = yes/no...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

support of AzureStack in Spectrum Protect Plus

we want to move our backups to cloud as 'second backup'. Our cloud provider offers AzureStack /pleAzureStack/, but in menu of Spectrum Protect plus is only Azure. Could you add support of AzureStack in some of near updates?
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Allow for import of Wildcard Certificate on FS5200 for securing WebUI

Currently on the FS5200, you have to create a certificate request and then upload the certificate generated from the request in order to secure the WebUI on the FS5200. We use Wildcard Certificates so that we don't have to order a new cert for eac...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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