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Operation Center Client deployment - query state of update package deployment

We need to be able to query the state of client deployment package distribution to spoke server. So which spoke server has successfully received its deployment package and is ready to update its client nodes, which spoke server failed to receive i...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Operation Center Client deployment - be able to deploy packages with command

Currently the polling and distributing of client deployment packages occurs every morning at 08:00 on the OC server, it is not officially possible to start this manually. Also if started manually with the undocumented refresh pkg command the proce...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

SP Operation Center - Enhance View - Storage --> Tape Device

In the OperationsCenter gui in Storage --> Tape Devices the link to 'Libraries' on the top left is pointing to the same location as the upper link: Storage --> Tape Devices https://servername:11090/oc/gui#tapeIt would make more sense to poin...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

SP Operations Center Reports in Attached Format

SP Operations Center Reports in Attached Format
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Proxy and vSnap on Power Linux

Require support for Spectrum Protect Plus vSnap server and VADP Proxy on Linux based on Power servers.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow acknowledging of host problems on Spectrum Scale GUI

System: Spectrum Scale GUIActor: Admins monitoring the system The GUI is our primary way of monitoring the health and performance of the system. When a worker node goes down, which is common in a large HPC system, the health of the filesystems sho...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

For DRP show used_capacity_before_reduction in the GUI

When using DRP, Real and used capacity is not shown in the GUI. Used capacity is actuyally available from command line as "used_capacity_before_reduction". I suggest that this value is presented in the GUI for DRP volumes.
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

REST API to support client certificates

For a more secure connection, we would like to request that you implement the option to use client certificates for authentication.
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

Enhanced possiblities for defining password policy in SPP

SPP does only allow to configure a minimum password length within the Global Preferences. Setting further options like: - minimum number of upper case characters- minimum number of lower case characters- minimum number of special characters- minim...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Linux VM filesystem backup/restore via SPP

We need to be able to protect filesystems and files on Linux VMs through SPP.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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