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    move stgpooldir command

    I'd like to se a command likemove stgpooldir <oldstgpooldir> <newstgpooldir>that move all containers in one stgpooldir to another automatiacally and in the background.or change the move container command to accept wildcard and a maxnum...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    New Client Option to force backup by file attribute change

    Configuration: Linux/UNIX Filesystem B/A Client Problem: After a chmod or chown command on a file, it is not possible to go back to the state before customers change when a new file backup was made. Because only the attribute in the DB was...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    List Fileset Capacity of Data in Different Pools

    Using the mmlsfileset command, GUI, or both - add ability to see what is the capacity of the fileset on differnet pools. If a filesystem has different pools ie. system, tier1, tier2, etc... using the mmlsfileset command get the percentage of the f...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Ability to change NSD names

    We would like the ability to change the name of existing NSDs. This change could be done while entire GPFS NSD Server Cluster is down, similar to when you change the NSD ServerList.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    maxruntime parameter does not honor admin schedules with wait=yes

    The maxruntime parameter could not be used for administrative schedules where processes with wait=yes are started. APAR IT21651 documents the behavior.
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    pseudo admin to administer and manage the box/users without access to destructive commands

    We would like to have the ability to create a pseudo admin userid which has the ability access and manage all settings on the ds8ks and perform user account management but without all the other powerful options / dscli commands commonly used by th...
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Upgrade Storage Archive EE cluster(10 nodes+2 libraries) node by node without stopping migrate and recall service

    Baidu Netdisk had bought lots of tape libraries to store their cool data. Their solution is Storage Scale + Storage Archive EE+ TS4500. Recently they met an Archive bug, and IBM EE team had found the root cause and provided a fix, Baidu Netdisk ha...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

    Output of prepare command need to be send via OC email or copied to an S3 target to support Airgap protection

    Output of prepare command need to be send via Operation Center email report (for multiple servers) or copied to an S3 target (e.g. prepare devclass=cloud) to support Airgap protection. Optionally the S3 bucket should be WORM protected.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus introduce support for file level backup and restore for Ubuntu and Debian VMs

    Spectrum Protect Plus introduce support for file level backup and restore for Ubuntu and Debian VMs
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Do not trigger a new base backup if the site associated with the SLA policy is changed

    Currently if you alter the target site in an SLA policy it will trigger a new base backup. This behaviour should be adjusted so that by default it does not trigger a new base backup.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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