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Add confirmation question for restart in Administrative Console - System Management

If accidently clicking on the "Restart IBM Spectrum Proctect Plus" it will happen instantly. I think it would be better with a confirmation here instead of using "hot" buttons.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Fields for frame/tray/disk expandability

Currently in a DS8k storage GUI we can see the little graphic of the frames connected and all the components inside each frame. we need the ability to see this graphical information in columns so we can determine if a frame has any expand-ability ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add option to SPP to disable automatic connection to IBM update center.

There's a long timeout when using the Administrative Console before it is possible to click on "Updates and Hotfix Management" when there's no connection to IBM update center. After this long timeout when it is possible to click and go to the "Upd...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management: integrated data masking is not available with virtual servers

The data masking feature is not supported with virtual servers, only physical servers.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management should be able individually rename target filesystems

SCDM can add a prefix, suffix, or replace a string when changing target filesystem names. It would be useful to have a one to one mapping of the source and targets to be renamed as an additional option.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Data Copy Management should be able to disable archive log mode on the target

SCDM should be able to bring up a target database and take it out of archive log mode. Most users do not run test copies of their databases in archive log mode.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management should update /etc/fstab

SCDM should automatically update /etc/fstab on linux targets when it mounts replicated filesystems and also remove them when unmounting them. Then filesystems will automatically be mounted if the target system reboots.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Operations Center does not allow a Container-Copy to be defined on a Directory Pool which Node Reps to a server using Cloud

When a Directory Container Pool is using Node Replication to replicate to a server which stores received data in a Cloud Container Pool, the Operations Center GUI does not all a Copy-Container Pool to be defined to allow a PROTECT STGPOOL to tape ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Control Storage Consumer report does not work when using DRP on SVC

Storage consumer report can use Capcacity or Allocated Spaces on volumes when generating a report. Allocated space on a volume is not counted when using DRP (Data Reduction Pool) on a storage system and reported as 0. It is not possible to determi...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Documentation for HMC password change

For security concern, it is needed to change the default password of all the HMC of a ESS storage appliance.I didn't find any documentation to follow for this task. I was able to modify the HMC passwords through the HTTP interfaces. With the IBM s...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

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