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Configure Eligible for log backup for SQL-database model to yes

I was told that the deployment of the SQL databases is done using the model-database. While every database will be implemented in roll-forward mode also the model database is configured to roll-forward.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Move node data from/to container storage pool

Migration of data from/to directory-container storage pool to/from disk or tape based storage pool is not possible.We need the ability to choose where the data reside and move them as needed without using the node replication feature that requires...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

List and stop long running commands

Some Spectrum Scale commands can take a long time to run, such as mmapplypolicy, mmrestripefs, mmecheckquota. These might be run manually, or started by cron a batch system, or a callback. But sometimes, once started, there is a need to stop the c...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon

Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

SPVE needs a Parameter to ignore failed quiesced snapshot if its not the last try

SPVE marks a schedule run with Warning if for one vm in the schedule one try to make a quiesced snapshot fails. This behavior makes no sense if INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS is set to more than one quiesced snapshot try. It only makes sense if the la...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 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

Enrich REST APIs for DS/8000 machines

Support of cluster related functionalities in API interface. chclusterlsclustermkclusterrmclustershowcluster
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Session status failed -99 received before schedule duration not ended

Hello, Description: Please be informed that when some SP client is reboot (Because OS patching) during the backup, SP server report event "failed -99". 6/12/24, 22:23:34 ANR0480W Session 2335563 for node [Node_name] (Linux x86-64) terminated - con...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus file level restore sudo previleges

Hi IBM, We are trying to enable file level restore on SPP and we are following the below URL.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spp/10.1.8?topic=requirements-file-indexing-restore One of the pre-rquisite is to enable superuser privileges for the agent us...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Make VTS performance numbers easily available

VEC VTS performed automatic reboot due to lack of memory. System started to page, and there is no easy way to monitor paging or any other critical VTS performance numbers. To monitor paging (and other critical resources) those numbers need to easi...
about 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

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