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Certification trust

Trust certificates trusted by OS - get rid of own local cert db. If we replace certificate on SP-server it should just work, as long as it is a global trusted certificate.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Enable multi protocol CES SMB / NFS rolling upgrades when CTDB upgrade is within a minor version.

When a multi protocol SMB and NFS CES cluster is upgraded, a short full stop of all CES protocols is required due to CTDB not allowing mixed major or minor versions. This can often cause issues with NFS mounts, if it is not possible to unmount the...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support replication of Retention Set information as well as the data

At present, retention rules and retention sets that are defined on the source replication server are not replicated to the target server. Only the data in the retention sets is replicated. This is a problem, in that should the source server be los...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Enhance Spectrum Protect to use Tapefunction Recomended Access Order for repair stg Containerpool from Tape.

The current support of tapefunction in Protect has more then one gaps in the area off use tape storage. The main concerns are the support of tape in the relation to containerstg. These current designs generate a alongated repair time if we want to...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Support DB2 HADR in Spectrum Protect Plus

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus works perfectly with DB2 databases. Unfortunately for all our critical databases, which are replicated using DB2 HADR, backup and restore with Spectrum Protect Plus is currently not supported.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

SPP Migrate Offloaded Data between different Cloud Providers

Spectrum Protect Plus should provide a functionality to migrate offloaded backups between cloud providers.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Get Red Hat to work with Storage Fusion Backup & Restore

Enhancements to Storage Fusion Backup & Restore should be made, and certification steps undertaken with Red Hat such that it is listed - preferably as the top product - on Red Hat's web site for RHOS and RH Virtualisation vendors. Currently Re...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Staged severity level for software code level warnings

In the Advisor section you get hints when your code is below minimum level. It's even called a software warning. We propose to raise it as alert, when on an EOS code version, as wraning when you are below minimum level and as informational when yo...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add quota logging capability to keep overall quota accounting consistent

For performance, nowadays, most of quota information is stored and updated in memory. Then, it will be synced back to disk in an asynchronous way later. However, there isn't a recovery mechanism for GPFS quota in abnormal situations. These can mak...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Capacity quota support for HSM managed file systems

We have two storage scale file systems which are HSM managed using Spectrum Protect for space Management. In total we are storing ~40 PB user data on tape here. Each group has been granted an amount of files and capacity for all our file systems. ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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