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Assignments panel needs to enhanced to display the ip address or WWN or switch name or at least the system UUID

We also are unable to use Assignments to spread the workload because all the switches are listed with their Chassis Name, and we have a lot of switches of the same kind so its impossible to differentiate between which device is located where. Woul...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Possibility to create a synthetic backup full in SPP with OSSM and vSnap at any time

For SLA reasons (law or company regulations) it is necessary that my BASE backup is NEVER older than 30 days!
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

temp. autologout customization in the SPP GUI

When pulling support logs in larger environments, the default autologout in the spp gui of currently 30min is exceeded. however, the time to create the log collection is much longer than 30min. this prevents the forwarding to support cases. a way ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Installation of kubernetes support componentes for ISP Plus from ISP Plus GUI

To install kubernetes backup support for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus access to Kubernetes Cluster node is required on the OS level via ssh.Several steps on the OS level are required to deploy the needed pods into the kubernetes environment.It would ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow IBM Flashsystems to have a trash bin to recover deleted volumes

Create a trash bin on SpecV to allow customer to recover deleted volumes by mistake with an auto-delete parameter after X days
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

lowInodes Callback for filesets

The noDiskspace callback is triggered on several occasions, one being an inodespace running out of inodes. At that point n time the filespace is already full and users see "no space on device" errors. We'd need a similar callback that triggers ear...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Backup of VMware Custom Atributes

Backup of VMware Custom Atributes and values.Service request number: 10814,999,846
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

select to get damaged containers in OC reports

The command QUERY DAMAGED <STGPOOLNAME> type=container is nice in order to see any damaged containers, however in Operations Center Reporting it is not possible to do the same command and there is no equivalent select statement available as ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

LSS Display capability in Internal Resources page per Storage Array

It would be nice to have the ability to report on LSS on a DS8K. It would be nice if we could report on LSS and the Device Type, getting the counts per model type with an LSS device quantity Total - perhaps with a Capacity Total by model and summary.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Future consideration

Create, modify & remove administative schedules

Create, modify & remove administative schedules from the Operation Center.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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