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maxruntime parameter does not honor admin schedules with wait=yes

The maxruntime parameter could not be used for administrative schedules where processes with wait=yes are started. APAR IT21651 documents the behavior.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Warning when deleting volumes they still have snapshots associated with them.

Within the FlashSystem OS, when you delete a volume, the volume does not go away and remains in the system if there is a snapshot(s) associated with it. The OS does not tell you that it cannot delete, but simply places the volume in a delete(ing) ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

CNSA HashiCorp Vault Encryption Key Server Support

Add support in CNSA for using HashiCorp Vault encryption key server with Scale CNSA. Currently supported in normal Scale but not in CNSA.
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

DS8000 SGC Monitoring, Reporting and Management with Manual and Auto Control

We are utilizing Safeguarded Copy across all of our Production environments. As the capability grows, so do the requirements in terms of capacity and performance. Regarding changes in capacity needs based on host activity or change in algorithm of...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

TSM Audit library should not require setting the library "offline"

TSM Library Manager often loses information about the location of a cartridge in the library.Most of all cases happen after a Drive-, or Robot-mechanics failure.TSM Librarymanager then demands an "Audit Library".To do that "audit", we need to stop...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Future consideration

CNSA / Rest API - Restrict GUI User access to a single Filesystem

Today, each CNSA Instance requires two GUI Users with the Access Roles of ContainerOperator and CsiAdmin. These GUI Roles have permissions to connect and manage all existing Filesystems on the Remote Scale Cluster. Fthat means: an Openshift Admin ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Migration of Backup-Jobs between SPP MasterServers

Export/Import of specific SLA's, Nodes, Backups incl. all necessary data from SPP Server1 to Server2 (e.g. new install SPP or existing installations) on node level on SLA level on backup job (SnapShot) level
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Support for Immutable Flag for ext4/xfs file systems

Please introduce support to use immutable flags in container and file storage pools for linux file systems like ext4 and xfs
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Treeview of copies

Why don't you add a graphical view of the copies ? It is not easy manage the copies without having a global view of source disks and related copies. Something similar to the attached picture or by exploring a treeview
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Backup on AIX nodes managed by PowerHA

The High Availability configuration of Power AIX systems is made up of two or more real nodes to which volumes and IP addresses are associated and then managed by PowerHA. In this configuration there are therefore at least three types of volumes:...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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