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Spectrum Protect for VE backup report

We need IBM Spectrum Protect Operation Center to be able to generate a SP (TSM) for VE backup report on daily bases. We need this report to cover successful and failed SP (TSM) for VE backup jobs and to be able to automatically e-mail to our manag...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Select which management class for offload backup is used.

When making backup jobs we want to select which management class the spectrum protect for VE datamover must use for offload backups. We need the option to have different retentions requirements for long term storage on the spectrum protect server....
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Configure TSM4VE without admin account on Spectrum protect server

Make it possible to configure the TSM4VE interface without the need for an administrative account on the Spectrum protect server. Currently TSM4VE configuration needs an administrative SP account in order to configure the product - if no admin is ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Enhance information provided in case of errors flushing file data from pagepool to persistent storage

In case of failures in that area, file data may be corrupted. Providing the information which files are affected omits the effort of manually identifying them by expensive scans of the file system.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add command that will display the eta for the full process to bring a drive back into use after its replacement.

In certain cases, you'd like to know the full time all work related to the replacement of a drive will take. For example, we had a major issue, with multiple hw components needing to be replaced. I can't replace the next one, until this drive work...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Db2admin member of local administrators group

Due to security policy the db2admin user should not be member of the local administrators group in Windows. The DB2 service can run as a service but the Spectrum Protect Server needs to be a member of the local admin group.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

GPFS client support larger memory address space

Currently GPFS client can use upto 1TB address space, but now GPU servers already configured with 2TB memory, and 3T, 4T memory in future. the address space below 1TB might be used by vfio, for nic, gpu passthrough, so GPFS client has very little ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Lessen Spectrum Scale CNSA's pods dependency on running as super user (root)

Today as of Scale version 5.1.1.4, some of the Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) containers for running Scale on Openshift have the need to run as super-user (root). Although it's understandable from the multi-decade history of Scale itself a...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Manage instances eligible with the automatic deployment on OC

System: Product Spectrum ProtectActor: User needing new feature We would like to manage instances eligible with the automatic deployment on OC.As we have several instances and some with data retention licences.We would like to exclude them from th...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Virtualize v8.2.1.9 'lsfabric' command does not support hostclusters

When tracking host fabric connections to a Spectrum Virtualize controller (especially with multiple IO groups) the command 'lsfabric -host <hostname>' can be used.However our VMWare cluster has 9 hosts, configured within a host cluster.The '...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration