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Add product_id to display on gui Pools, Internal storage

I am looking at this site: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/873170 There is nothing there to tie my drives on my FS7300 running 8.5.0.10 to anything on that site. I am trying to use the GUI. I go into Pools, Internal Storage. I even tried to...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Automatic archive log inactivation by Spectrum Protect Snapshot for SQL

Full backups made by Spectrum Protect Snapshot (FCM) for SQL, through VSS, do not inactivate the previous archived logs, causing them to accumulate on the Spectrum Protect Server. The inactivation process is done manually through the command line,...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

OSSM master encyption key needs to be protected from loss

If the OSSM master encyption key is lost, the protected data stored on the IBM Storage Protect server cannot be recovered for the IBM Storage Protect Plus client. The product needs a better resiliency mecanism to avoid the loss of that key.
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Select background colour in GUI

When working with several systems it would be nice to change background colour or banner colour.It would be easier to visually see what system you are working on.
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

add --auto-inode-limit for independent filesets

In Storage Scale 5.1.4 mmcrfs/mmchfs introduced the --(no)auto-inode-limit switches. Unfortunately this only works for whole filesystems and cannot be finetuned for individual (independent) filesets. There are situations where you have a mixed env...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Data inegrity checksum on stored data

In the time of Big Data the storage solutions are increasing in magnitude. With the growth of the data the risk of being hit by a silent data corruption also increases. Spectrum Scale itself does not check the data integrity stored on the NSD. It ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

DSCLI for zVM

Hi, Working for Kyndryl France, Resiliency Services on z Mainframe, we resize our dasd arrays very very often.I think it could be nice to have the opportunity to use DSCLI on z/VM rather than a browser or .bat on windows. Be able to develop a rexx...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

implement a call like dsmPing() to keep sessions alive

Sessions on the Spectrum Protect server gets terminiated due to inactivity timeout, even though there are still a running backup on the client. The backup process that are scanning for changed blocks can sometimes take long time.For example DB2 in...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Reflink/ficlone support

reflink/ficlone is a system call for making clones of files, where all data blocks is initially shared, and changes are then done through copy-on-write/redirect-on-write. This can be done through "cp --reflink", or IOCTL_FICLONERANGE system call. ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to alter the audit log retention period

Hello! We recently came across the need to reduce the audit log retention period of a storage scale system to save some space and we realized that the only way to do that is to disable and re-enable the audit log feature altogether. As an end user...
4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

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