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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

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

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

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 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

Add LROC support for Encrypted data

When using Local Read-Only Cache (LROC) functionality with encrypted file system data, the LROC function is bypassed and data is not held locally to increase performance. Data from encrypted file systems should be used with LROC. I should be held ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

TSM for Linux PPC

i understand version 8 will not be supported on LinuxPPC servers
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Delivered

Clustered Data Ontap version 9.0 GA

Unable to Backup our New Cluster running:Current Cluster Version: NetApp Release 9.0: Fri Aug 19 11:04:54 UTC 2016
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Delivered

SVC can be connected to security logging and monitoring system

The requirement is that as audit events are generated; a syslog message is sent into the audit system. We would like the ability to configure multiple syslog destinations for resilience and also have the ability to specify the target port.Applies ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

V7000 Legal Disclaimer

A customizable legal disclaimer should be configurable at logon
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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