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Show Unprotected VM detail from Protection Summary

The Protection Summary section of the Policy Overview page shows protected and unprotected Virtual Machines. However I would expect to be able to click on the 'Unprotected' icon, for example, and get a list of unprotected VM's, but this is not the...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add compressed/ill-compressed options to mmfind

For a while we have maintained our own modified versions of mmfind and tr_findToPol.pl in /usr/lpp/mmfs/samples/ilm so we can identify the compressed and illcompressed files. It would be nice if this feature could be considered for inclusion in fu...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Ad hoc snapshot which is generated from daily backup for weekly / monthly / Yearly

Spectrum Protect Plus Ad hoc snapshot which is generated from daily backup for weekly / monthly / Yearly Currently we need to create new SLA for create additional weekly / monthly / yearly which need additional backup windows time and additional s...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

GUI should schedule daily policy runs

Customers often needs to run a set of policies on filesystems as daily maintenance. F.ex.: * Compress files * Migrate new files from primary to secondary pool * Premigrate data to tape/cloud/external pool, so that when a capacity-based trigger can...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Support for Azure Blob Immutable Storage

Cyber Resiliency of backup data using immutable storage needs to be possible using Azure Blob Immutable Storage, both in Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, as both products are capable of storing data in Azure Blob storage.ICOS immutable ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Support for dynamic expansion of each constituent volume in Storage Scale GPFS's File System, especially in combination with Db2 PureScale on Public Cloud.

It is necessary to support dynamic expansion of each constituent volume itself, rather than GPFS expansion by adding volumes. Adding volumes has a limit on the number of expansions. The method of adding a volume larger than the existing volume an...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SP Client LNX set offline password

We are deploying linux systems automatically without any user interaction. For this delivery we need to set the password for the SP Client after installation. There is no solution in SP Client linux to set password by scripts or command.On windows...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Backing up data to Replication Spectrum protect server when Production TSM server id down for many days.

When the production Spectrum Protect server is down or having Disaster scenario, SP admins should go through tiresome steps to backup the data to replication SP Server. For each client, we will need to below steps for customers having 4000+ client...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add a link to the RFE (Request For Enhancements) community in the SPP UI

Add a link to the RFE (Request For Enhancements) community in the SPP UI
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add a link to the RFE (Request For Enhancements) community in the SP OC UI

Have a link from SP OC to the RFE community
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration