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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

add webproxy/authentication for TSM Auto Client Deployment ftp access

The Auto Client Deployment function in the TSM Admin Center has the ability to connect to the IBM ftp servers and automatically download client packages, which assists managing large corporate environments. Unfortunately, large corporate environme...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

FCM for VMware: Support for duplicate UUIDs

In Vmware environments it is a common procedure to clone a VM. After this is done, the new VM gets the same UUID as the VM where it was cloned from. A post process is necessary in order to give the cloned VM a new UUID. If this post process is not...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM for VMware: GUI field "backup end time" should be optional

When a new backup schedule is created, the GUI forces the user to enter a backup end time. These fields should be optional because some clients want the schedule to run forever.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM for VMware: For VM restore GUI should ask for Storage Resource Group

If a VM is being restored to another location the GUI does not ask for a Storage Resource Group. This implies that it is impossible to restore the VM to any Storage Resource Group. Instead the VM is being restored outside an Storage Resource Group...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Send notification via SS and ESS for expiring encryption certificate

As the expiring certificate is expiring, the warning messages will be printed periodically into the GPFS daemon log (/var/adm/ras/mmfs.log.latest) in upcoming 5.0.x release. This RFE is to notify users via email or whatever means configured in ESS...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

SVC Mirrored Volumes - Change all primary Volumes at once

In SVC current releases, it is not possible to switch all primary volumes at once from one mirror to the other. It's only possible switch the primary state for each LUN (Volume) in the SVC for mirrored Volumes.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Show Unprotected Applications

As the System discovers "unprotected VMs" and "unprotected Databases/Applications", I'd like to get a query / view, which are these.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

IBM SPP Support for Non-AD LDAP servers

IBM SPP to support for Non-AD LDAP servers such as OpenLDAP
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

3 or more ISKLM IP address for TS7700

Intesa San Paolo, the biggest Italian Bank, with 3 Grids-3way installed, is asking for an ehancement for TS7700, related to ISKLM IP address.Custumer would like that more than 2 ISKLM IP address can be defined, at least 3.
about 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release