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    SpecV queue full condition not being properly retried/recovered by MSDSM

    Ian Mac Quarrie and Bill Passingham are aware of this issue at GEICO. Spectrum Virtualize in combination with Windows MSDSM is currently experiencing issues when Spectrum Virtualize hits a queue full condition. This condition needs to be fixed.Bil...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

    mmnetverify fails ungracefully when --target-node is Windows node

    When run from Scale node on x86 RHEL 7.3 (x86), mmnetverify fails ungracefully when --target-node is a Windows node.Moreover, it fails inconsistently when used with the node's "Scale" interface vs. the Admin node name, providing additional confusion.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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...
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 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 ...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 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 !
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 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 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 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 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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...
    almost 8 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 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

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