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    additional status "MAINTENANCE" for drives and paths

    Drives and paths only the both status' ONLINE and OFFLINE. An additional one "MAINTENANCE" or "OFFLINE asap" would be extremely useful for the preparation of maintenance (especially unplanned due to an error) to get a library free of accesses.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    ESS GUI file system resize option requested

    It would be nice to be able to increase the size of an existing gpfs file system from within the ESS GUI instead of having to do it on the command line.
    7 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    IBM Spectrum Protect: Task Time Preview and Progress Indicators

    There are currently no preview or progress indicators for server and client related tasks. It would be good to get an indication of how long a task will take before kicking it off as well as an indication of how much time is still remaining for th...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Provide a command to set the "replace"-flag to disks in missing state, so a callhome is triggered.

    Disks in state "missing/drained" are not treated as replaceable disks by design, and so they do not trigger a call home. But because many of these disks are indeed broken, it would be useful if the administrator could run a command or use a GUI bu...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

    Report power redundancy failure on a ESS Data Server or ESS Protocol Node

    Currently, the GUI neither mmhealth report a power redundancy failure if power cord is unplugged or power is lost at one of the PSUs. The GUI uses ipmitool rvitals as an internal report were PSU appears as ok but PSU fan rpm are reduced. The GUI s...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Future consideration

    Add TDP for Oracle to Retention Sets type of data that can be included

    Currently, retention sets allow TDP for SQL, B/A Client, TDP for Mail, DP for VE (both VMware and Hyper-V) but only TDP for DB - Oracle is NOT supported and this is reallly needed for long term retention - there's a class of backups that is comple...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Change the user running admin schedules

    It would be good to have some system user running the admin schedules instead of the last user updating/creating the schedule. To avoid schedules failing due to admins getting removed from the environment.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Add support for SNI in TLS handshake when using TLS/SSL

    When using SSL/TLS from clients, the handshake towards the server should include SNI in order to better support centralized certificate management when using e.g. SSL offloading hosts RFC 6066 specifies:It is RECOMMENDED that clients include an ex...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Vmware Backup Failure ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the datamover on all platforms.

    Vmware Backup Failure ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the datamover on all platforms. ANE4174E Full VM backup of VMware Virtual Machine 'vmname' failed with RC=rc mode=full_or_incr, target node name='target_node_name', data ...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    TSM does not start Migrations properly

    TSM-Server does not start any new Migrations if there is still 1 Migration running from the previous "reaching HiMig".Example1. HiMig reached = 8 migrations started for diskpool2. Migrations running an decreasing utilisation of pool3. LoMig reache...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

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