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GNR needs to be supported outside ESS

Since Spectrum Scale is a Software Defined Storage product, we would need to support GNR outside of Elastic Storage Server.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Additional SPP Support for Oracle XE Version

Backup by SPP not possible for Oracle XE: Oracle Database 18c Express Edition Release 18.0.0.0.0
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Remove the requirement for disabling UAC on application aware VE backups

As of now the use of the application aware Exchange backup with Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments requires the permanent disabling of Windows UAC. We would like to see a different solution (that does not require Windows UAC to be disabled ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

parallel session when using node replication from tape

Need support for parallel session when using node replication from tape.When for example run a RMAN Backup with 4 session to tape, we can replicate the data with 4 sessions over 4 tape and 4 drives to other side. With Node Replication only one ses...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Keyboard shourtcut in DSMADMC

Implementation of keyboard short-cuts for DSMADMC (SP administrative client console).
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 Multiple NTP Server Addresses for Redundancy

This would be a robust configuration if the TS7700 MI can allow multiple entries for NTP time servers (just like the DS8950 MI), and/or allow LTM/GTM IP addresses and have one IP address that goes on a round robin of available NTP servers in the p...
7 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 Web Management Interface for IBM BP

Supply to IBM BP a TS7700 WEB MI as a remote tool or demo
over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

DSMCAD should write a PID File

DSMCAD is missing an option to write a PID file. When the daemon is started it forks into background and the started process vanishes. You can only grep the process list to get the PID of the running process. Tools like systemd need this informati...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

SVC HyperSwap and FlashCopy restrictions

In theory HyperSwap seems more appealing than an SVC stretched cluster and have some advantages regarding cross-site traffic and in case of an site failure. But if you also plan to use the FlashCopy technology, there are some restrictions I have b...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

PBR verify replication direction change when using CLI

PB Replication: In certain instances the QA databases are refreshed daily from the Global Mirror targets. With the current process on the SVC you can specify the replication direction for example “svctask startrcconsistgrp -force -primary master 5...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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