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Provide efficient read-only file-level snapshots

Today, mmclone can be used to effectively provide a read-only snapshot of a single file (mv origfile snapfile ; mmclone snap snapfile ; mmclone copy snapfile origfile). But to clean up the snapshot when it is no longer needed requires mmclone spli...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

If there is a broken or offline canister, make it easier for the offline canister to rejoin the good canister after the offline canister is replaced

Customer had a canister that was replaced. The new canister would not boot. Support had to work with the admin to run the chbootdrive command to update the serial number to the new canister to get things fully working. The request is for an enhanc...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM Library Audit command enhancement

We have TS3500 libraries that we try to do monthly audits on. In order to do the audits, all the drives in the library must be idle, unmounted. As we have grown, there is rarely if ever an instance when all the drives are idle, therefore, we canno...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Call Home for AIX

Provide the Call Home feature for AIX like the Linux feature
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

No storage for client transaction

The customer wants to know if it is possible to get a request for improvement started so that TSM B-A clients will handle this problem file more elegantly, without blowing up server storage? We added a few hundred Unix servers to ECS (object stora...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to use VMware backup to recover SQL database

Customer have several hundered SQL servers of various importance. Customer want the ability to not only truncate SQL logs as part of the backup but also protect the SQL servers and use that backup to recover/re-use SQL databases.Customer want to d...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

GUI for Spectrum Scale MMBACKUP function requested from MD Anderson Cancer Center

Spectrum Scale new RFE being pursued by Tram, Gabe, Jonathan and Raul, via Scale Case TS002279140 and Crit Sit AB1835.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

Implement end-to-end checksums for non GNR environments

Implement data block checksums in GPFS to protect against silent data corruption. This is particularly important in an FPO environment where there are no RAID controllers to protect against individual SATA drives returning bad data to the applicat...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Don't report Null or no Information Returned message 2234 as an Error

Don't report Null or no Information Returned message 2234 as an Error. These should be classified as warnings instead of errors, if at all. It is not an issue if no data was returned. There may actually be no data to return on many query commands.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Quota management delegation

I was discussing removal of root use for commands with ibm dev Germany and this came up. Need the ability to delegate quota management to different groups of users on large scale file systems. You can have different admins for different teams resp...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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