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Change status of a need_replace tape

The eeadm tape replace command is a command that take long time because when this command is in the reclaim phase, is only allowed to use two tape drive although a regular "eeadm tape reclaim" command is allowed to use more tape drive. Sometime, a...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

Allow more than 20 threshold rules in the GUI (mmhealth)

You can only create a maximum of 20 threshold rules, either through the Spectrum Scale GUI or directly with the mmhealth command. This limit should be increased (e.g. to a minimum of 50)
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Security enhancement to the TS4500 CLI tool

I would like to request a security enhancement to the TS4500 CLI tool to support authentication credentials to be read from a file on disk of the workstation. Today, typical TS4500 CLI usage is something like this:# java -jar /opt/TS4500/TS4500CLI...
almost 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 4 Future consideration

Support for nested LDAP groups and a test LDAP function

Enable LDAP support for nested LDAP groups and enable a test function for LDAP setup
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable a randomised restore test i.e. Automated Recovery Tester

Restore functionality – Enable a randomised restore test i.e. Automated Recovery Tester
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add ability to specify SSH port and REST API port (if REST API used for UserID/Password connection

We have storage devices running that will not be upgraded to 8.6 for some time (or never), but are accessible only through NAT firewall gateways. The SSH daemon is accessible via ports that are not 22. Cisco and Brocades allow the REST API port nu...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Control integration into VMware

Hi Team We are looking for a permanent solution to an issue that we are having at a customer below. Our customer is looking for deep integration between Spectrum Control Advanced Edition/VSC and VMware. Currently, Spectrum Control probes VMware on...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Add REstApi to query all volumes on a DS8K

You can only have a list of volumes if you gives the pool_id or LSS_id. Is-it possible to have a Rest Api to have a list of all volumes on a DS8K without to do looping query on LSS or pool_id ?
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Search for VM backup status

On a regular basis we are asked 'did my VM backup' or 'how long did my VM backup take'. There is currently no way of searching for his information directly within the SPP GUI, instead job logs have to be downloaded as a CSV and imported into excel...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Only restore blocks needed for VM restore

Customer has requested if it would be possible to only recover the needed blocks to restore a VM back to a desired point in time. Customer stated that in previous tools this was the method used and that it reduced the time needed to do a restore. ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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