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GUI role for user with permissions to only manage Quota on Spectrum Scale

We have several divisions who would need to manage their own quota on Spectrum Scale. According to the IBM DEV Team and Lab Services, users with one of the following roles should have access to the filesets/quotas: securityadmin admin protocoladmi...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Command required to terminate tape optimization recall

No command is available to terminate a tape optimization recall(TOR).Now you need to invoke "ctrl+c" if you have access to the shell in which the dsmrecall is running, or search its process ID and issue "kill SIGTERM". dsmq + dsmrm can be used for...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Create new user group and role that can only Start/Stop Remote Support Assistance

Currently administrator or restricted administrator role is needed to start or stop a remote support access session. This does not meet our security requirements since this role can perform many other functions. We want a role that does only one t...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

TDP-R3 should not consider the SAP Oracle DB backup which is failed for control files for retention count.

We are taking SAP Oracle DB backup using TDP-R3 along with BRbackup utility and RMAN. Backup attempted to create an auto backup of SPFILE and control file which got failed, but the backup continued running and TDP instructed to store backup pieces...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

Journal Based Backup Identification

Request is to be able to identify nodes using journal based backups from a query to the Spectrum Protect Server
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Migrate data from one cloud storage pool to another cloud storage pool

We need feature to migrate data from one cloud container storage pool to another cloud container storage pool using "move nodedata" as it's currently only support sequencial storage pool but won't support container storage pools
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Improve Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Unix to leverage Oracle BCT for offloaded tape backups

Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Oracle supports mounting a FlashCopy target set to a backup server (auxiliary server) and to perform rman incremental level 1 offloads to a Spectrum Protect server from there. In order to identify the changed blocks i...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

Define a launch window by SLA

The need is to be able to set an SLA time from which everything left in the queue in the SLA is canceled.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide encryption support to M2 internal disks to allow failed disks' removal at very large bank

In case of a failed M2 disk in large bank or other information sensitive company, the lack of encryption support for internal disks prevents returning failed disks to IBM for repair because large banks command retaining all non encrypted disk in t...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Alert for Consistency Group status change

Product: Storage insight PROActor: users want to be alerted for GlobalMirror stoppedDescription: we want to have an alert for monitoring Global mirror status change. In details we want to be alerted when we a consistency group goes to stoppedstauts
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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