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Support backup and restore of metadata

Allow administrator to backup and restore GPFS filesystem metadata without losing data stored on dataOnly or dataAndMetadata NSDs.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

IPv6 Support for NDMP

NDMP-Backup of NAS-Systems (CDOT CAB) not possible in IPv6-Only environment. Datamover creation can't resolve AAAA records, NAS Node needs v4 LIF to open connection to tape server. First step would be to tell the storage system only the DNS name o...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

RESTORE ONLY PERMISSIONS?

Restore only ACL permission
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize does not warn or advise about number of backend paths

Spectrum Virtualize family of products do not advise administrators of missing paths (started at 4 and dropped to 2) nor does it advise when you have too few paths (2 instead of say 6 needed to take full advantage of backend storage) in the GUI or...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Specturm Virtualize does not provide a warning for too many paths being presented to hosts.

Spectrum Virtualize does not provide a warning nor prevention of too many paths visible to hosts. This is very common and causes many performance impacts or non-optimal performance.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

VMware dissimilar recovery

Ability to select VMware side components, such as available LUNs and network interfaces, during recovery of VMs to alternate environments. This would allow VMs to be restored and function with the configuration which is dissimilar to the original
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Make filename handling independent of locale settings

I previously raised this as a bug in TSM with PMR 60127,040,678 but was instructed to raise it with RFE community instead, so here it goes. The spectrum protect client does not back up all valid files when the locale settings are set to a multibyt...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

XRSC: Use CA trusted certificates on IBM XRSC servers

Our Proxy servers expect publicly trusted certificates from the vendor support centre servers ( IBM backend servers) that XRSC is communicating with via proxy servers. However, the backend servers are not using publicly trusted certificates.
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

XRSC: SSL encryption/decryption capability

Support of proxy new functionality ( SSL encryption/decryption) for HTTPS traffic with port 10443: This is not supported with the current version of IBM XRSC software.
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Lock contention Issue

DB2 locking of a file or portion of a file with direct IO enabled causes issues with mmrestripe from a lock contention prespective.This should be addressed. The decision to change the disk location of a block and not allowing anyone to alter a blo...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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