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Customize At Risk intervals to reflect real environment

In order to have the Operations Center reflect correctly the risk status of Spectrum Protect nodes we should be able to inform accuratedly when the backups really run. Some clients, for instance, have nodes that run backups only on weekdays, so th...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

RENAME DEVCLASS

We have to rename some tape based DEVICE CLASSES for organizational reasons.Unfortunately, there is no RENAME DEVCLASS command defined. The DEVICE CLASSES mentioned have storage pools with large amounts of archive data (many PB)with expiration tim...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

GUI snapshot deletion from oldest to newest

Due to inode manipulation, it is a best practice and less effort to the GPFS to delete the oldest snapshot first. However, when doing the snapshot deletion manually, in the client using the GUI, it should also order it from oldest to newest.This w...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Enhanced RBAC with command specific granularity

Implement enhanced RBAC policy configuration based on a per command configuration policy. We want to specify per defined adminitrator which actions/commands can be executed. Command approval as implemented in the latest versions is to limited
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Accelerate re-balance actions when adding new ECE nodes into existing RG

Partner was opened two cases about expanding ECE nodes to existing RG. The re-balance progress was very slowly. The action was last for 3 months when adding 3 new ECE nodes into existing 5 ECE nodes topology.This is not a acceptable solution to cu...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

gpfs support mount fileset or directory

I hope that GPFS (General Parallel File System) supports mounting filesets or directories. Since each fileset or directory is used by different individuals, if mounting of filesets and directories is supported, it would achieve the effect of data ...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Protect STGPool type=local mounts tape before checking if data to be copied available

TSM Server protect STGPool mounts Carts without any payload.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support for 3rd party software installation for monitoring/automation software

ISP+ Produkt support is needed for the OVA and RHEL deployment, to install 3rd Party monitoring and automation software at the ISPP vSnap and ISPP operatingsystem layer. The ISP+ Bluprint documentation explicitly dismiss the installation for 3rd p...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect KMIP support for encryption

Basically requesting SP products compatibility with KMIP when using Spectrum Protect products built-in encryption capabilities.We are seeing encryption demands more and more every day and most of time customers want to have a unified encryption ke...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Easier filters for logical and physical switches in Storage Insights

Add an easier way to filter logical and physical switches when viewing in Storage Insights. There is a column called "virtual" with a yes/no answer that can help you sort the list. That helps you separate them from each other, but they are all sti...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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