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Manage proxy node ( restore Only , backup Only ,both)

Hello, We have production and not production environment. Some nodes needs to be restored on not production environment. But a derogation is mandatory to do it. So, we configured proxy nodes . Then we can lock and unlock the nodes to be compliance...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Admin User Creation Segregation of Duty

Due to enhanced security requirements the customer would like to have a segregation of duty for the creation of admin users. The possibility of creating new admin users and granting them system authority should be removed from the admin/system aut...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Automatically clear errors, and send alarm clear trap, for self healing errors

The svc code sends snmp traps when an event or an error occurs. To make error handling easier, it would be nice to get the svc to clear selffixed issues. A trap that states that the error has been automatically resolved should be sendt to the trap...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

DEACTIVATE DATA command enter a list of nodes, or date range or possibly of another platforms (DB2, SQL) NODEGROUP

Will DEACTIVATE commands be able to be executed to enter a series a series of NODES, or for a NODEGROUP? Will the commands be able to be executed for a certain date range, and not only with the current option of TODATE=TODAY-xx days? Is it planned...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP automatically deleting Job ID when all VMs/Datastores are deselected

Spectrum Protect Plus when removing datastores or VMs from an SLA policy if you remove all the SLA policy goes into a "deleted" state on the back end and when you assign a new datastore even if it was the same one it creates a new Job ID and does ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Report and Update Quota's better

Spectrum Scale has commands of mmlsquota, mmedquota, mmrepquota and mmsetquota to update and control quotas. It would be helpful to be able to copy quotas between users, filesets and groups in a flexable fasion, both within the same filesystem (wh...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Scheduled reports. Save to local path in SPP

Hi.Regarding how to schedule a report to NOT use smtp server due to DMZ and sectret networks. We are handling SPP in DMZ and secret networks where there is no smpt server allowed. How can we save scheduled reports to a local path?For us this is im...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Private AWS DirectConnect domain support in SP

Our customer need to have support in Spectrum Protect for using private AWS DirectConect domain for VPCE in URL Cloud Connection for S3. SP currently support only public domain in URL like "s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com" This Spectrum Protect limitat...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow individual NDMP backups to be deleted with a new "delet nasbackup" command

At present only the following methods can be used to delete NDMP backups in Spectrum Protect 1. Altering the copygroup settings for the management class in the policy domain which the NDMP backups are bound to and allowing expiration to run.2. Del...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Provide method to move VMs & associated backups between different data centers

We have a deployment coming up where the VMWare administrators are creating a new data center within the same vCenter and VMs from the existing data centers are going to be moved to the new data center. I opened a PMR to find out if there was a wa...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration