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Require Generic TSM Client Login Failure Messages

TSM Backup/Archive Admin Client and Client display failures that are too explicit, and the requirement is that it is generic, in order to meet security requirements:.For this TSM issue, one message overlaps, that for the wrong password. This shoul...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

Expose NFS-Ganesha pseudo path option in GPFS GUI

Current GPFS GUI do not offer NFS-Ganesha pseudo path option when the NFS export is created. The customer do not like to export and mount long directory path. This is very true when we configure unified object and file access - the directory path ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Increase the safeguarded copy memory size

Hi, Now Safeguarded copy limit is 2048Mb per IO group. The flashcopies require 1MB of memory for every 2TB of source volume capacity. I have 120 TB data and I need to use 128 retention, 2048 of memory is not enough. Copy limit for IO group must in...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Spectrum Scale Integration with the systemd mount facility (JUMP Trading LLC)

Spectrum Scale does not currently integrate with the systemd mounts facility, which means that systemd has no way of determining if Spectrum Scale file systems are properly mounted on a node. Please see the following discussion on the Fedora syste...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Assist On-site support for SAN Volume Controller

We request to support the Assist On Site (AOS) for SVC. The client requests that the IBM support center can use remote support feature. Therefore support for Assist On-Site would be a good solution, because other IBM storage systems like XIV / DS8...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Scripts executed on client to have parameters/environment variables

When trying to implement backup with proxy nodes (and placing all data on a single target-node), a problem arises. Since backups with proxy nodes requires the ASNODE parameter, and in a hosted environment it is not desirable to create customer spe...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

Add STAT tools to Compass code / GUI

Put the functionality of this STAT tool inside the Storwize code and GUI This is regarding all Storwize Family products.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC Location information

We should add a location information for the SVC Clusters and individual nodes, so that in MetroMirror and Global Mirror as well as split cluster setups the user can more easily identify the location of entities.
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Spectrum Scale Needs to Accommodate more than 128 GPFS Max Groups per UserID with AIX 7.1

Currently there is a limitation of MAX groups per user what are supported by current GPFS on AIX 7.1 Long time ago AIX 7.1 (~2010) did increase maximum of groups per user up to 2048 where GPFS keep support to only first 128 groups ( like old AIX 6...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Improve filter functionality on remote copy GUI screen for 8.4 and up to match capabilities which are available in code stream 8.3

Up until SVC code 8.3.x there are extensive filtering capabilities on the remote copy GUI screen. this filter also searches the remote copy groups for matching patterns and shows the matching entries including the remote copy consistency group nam...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

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