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SnapDiff API - NetAPP un-deprecated snapdiff ZAPIs in both 9.10.1 and 9.11.1 P-patch releases

Let me also give you some background information on SnapDiff APIs. Originally SnapDiff v1/v2 ZAPIs were deprecated in ONTAP 9.10.1 and 9.11.1 but were un-deprecated in both 9.10.1 and 9.11.1 P-patch releases. As long as you are on the most recent ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add RESTful query for AoS enabled/disabled status

Being able to query this via RESTful API would allow us to set up automated checks to verify that AoS is the desired state across our many clusters. For security it is preferred that AOS is default disabled and only enabled when there is a valid c...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Ability to view capacity info as z/OS reports it

Insights is great for viewing info (real time and historical) at the device / storage system level similar to the gui for the DS8K. However that is not the most useful info for day to day operations of these devices defined to z/OS. Insights does ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

VM File Indexing not available while Configuring VM using NVMe Disk Controller in SPP

While Configuring virtual machine using NVMe Disk Controller from VMware side. VM Backup is successful to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. When using File Restore feature in SPP. File indexing is not available and this is happening because OS's are not ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CDM: Allow parallel mounts/restores to proxy/remote host (Windows)

CDM should allow and handle right mounting multiple snapshots of same type/application to another host (mount proxy/remote host) at the same time (Windows). Intention is to offload multiple MSSQL Server snapshots in parallel. It seems that OS/SCSI...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add SMTP protocol for event

For information security reasons, some companies are unable to connect out the systems to report issues and events. Most IBM Storage and Mainframe systems have an SMTP protocol for sending e-mail alerts but not in TS77700. Can you add this option ?
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Add export logs to IBM (call home) via REST API Endpoint.

With this customer could automated the Datacollection and the export to IBM Ecurep.
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Open Spectrum protect S3 agent for use by BRMS (iSeries)

The intent is to open up the S3 Agent for use by entities other than Spectrum Protect Plus. Target for this request is iSeries BRMS which is currently using S3 to send backup data to cloud.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Add GPFS Fileset quota metrics/monitoring

Product: Spectrum Scale quota monitoring (specially for filesets) We use GPFS fileset quota. These fileset quota is only monitored internally by the GPFS GUI - if the GPFS GUI is installed. If the fileset quota exceeded, the system will give you n...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Scale System HashiCorp Self Encrypting Drive Support

Add Self Encrypting Drive Support for HashiCorp Vault
6 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

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