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Storage Scale - A GPFS node with multiple nic drivers (ip addresses) should not be able to rejoin the cluster when the daemon interface is down

Our storage nodes have multiple nic drivers and IP addresses (RoCE network). When the nic for daemon IP is down (dev bond0), it will still keep trying to rejoin the cluster again and again, because its another nic (dev bond1) is still working. But...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

DSMCAD should write a PID File

DSMCAD is missing an option to write a PID file. When the daemon is started it forks into background and the started process vanishes. You can only grep the process list to get the PID of the running process. Tools like systemd need this informati...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

success ful backup in database

So according to this case the filespace table in database, column "last_successful_backup" for Exchange TDP is only updated if replication is configured. If replication is not running, this value is not updated as it should.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

S3 target on DS8

Consolidation of infrastructure (storage) on to a single platform
6 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Add Support for OpenSource DBs like PSQL, MySQL

As an Enterprise Backup solution, Storage Protect should have the ability to integrate with very widely used DB systems such as PostgreSQL (Used in Enterprises as much as in smaller business and private environments). Storing Backups using the DB ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

HTTP proxy support for fusion backup to S3

When doing fusion backups to S3, most of the customers are using HTTP proxy with validation to allow access to external sources. Currently this is not supported
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Add option in Spectrum Protect OC to send reports in PDF format

One of my customers requested to have the option to send Spectrum Protect reports in PDF format via email. This is the same functionality that they have today, since they are using Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM Tivoli Common...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

Storage Scale GUI command line does not show when Expiration (Safe Guarded snapshot) is enabled

Client enabled the option "Allow Expiration" at the GUI. At the GUI panel, we see the Expiration column changed from False to True. However when checking in the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/lssnaprule command, it does not have the Expiration column, so i...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Additional SPP Support for Oracle XE Version

Backup by SPP not possible for Oracle XE: Oracle Database 18c Express Edition Release 18.0.0.0.0
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Add additional commands to IBM Spectrum Protect's command approval infustructure

IBM Spectrum Protect currently has the ability to require approval from two administrators for certain commands. However, commands like REGISTER ADMIN, UPDATE ADMIN, and REMOVE ADMIN are not included in this framework. From a security point of vie...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

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