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Support multiple INCR Flash Copy backups with DS8000 storage

Currently FlashCopy Manager supports only one Incremental FlashCopy backup can be performed in a DS8000 environment. With DS8000 Licensed Internal Code (LIC) 7.7.40 multiple incremental FlashCopy relationships became available. A single volume can...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

Redirect GUI DB to a different directory

This RFE is to allow users for setting the PG_DATA environment in Scale GUI for redirecting the database outside the root directory of the system.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Direct links to custom dashboards

Allow the ability to directly link to a custom dashboard. In large environments with many different teams, being able to send a direct link to a custom dashboard for that team would be helpful. Also being able to bookmark a dashboard or to use it ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Overlay / Namespace support information (Singularity Containers)

Singularity (https://sylabs.io/singularity) is a container runtime commonly used on HPC systems that include GPFS filesystems. We are trying to understand the level of support in GPFS for overlay mounts (upperdir & lowerdir), and namespaces (i...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Capacity Threshold Alerting

The monitoring "Threshold" only allows for a single value to be set, not a second value. Example. Warning Threshold is set to 70%, when the pool exceeds 70% a Warning level severity alert is send. There is not an option to set a second threshold a...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Increase independent filespace limit

AFM, fileset snapshots and some other features can only be used with independent filesets. Thus GPFS customers are advised to prefer them over dependent filesets.But GPFS has a hardcoded limit of 1000 independent filesets per filesystem which is t...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

SSH ACCESS

Could you please provide SSH access in order to automatize some operations like backup of the conf ?
over 1 year ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

TRUE GUI

Why the GUI has a limited window size ? When it will be modern ?
over 1 year ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

Compression tool to measure performance and cache impact

Compression tool that allows assessment of performance impact, and not just disk space recovered. Also determine cache usage (enough for data compression ?)
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Deliver for each Server a GPFS Client for free

GPFS aka Spectrum Scale is great- to reach a broader customer set, I suggest that we'll deliver a GPFS client/ NSD "driver for free" !
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration