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enhance for multi-session retrieve functionality

Multi-sessions is not enchanced in retrieve operations while it is for restore operations
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Monitoring Capabilities by adding new Performance-Metric

Our Load on Ganesha NFS drives the Services into stale conditions where manual interventions are required and possibly tuning measures needed. Currently there is no way to figure what Limits are hit within Ganesha and logging seems not to help a l...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for VE backup report

We need IBM Spectrum Protect Operation Center to be able to generate a SP (TSM) for VE backup report on daily bases. We need this report to cover successful and failed SP (TSM) for VE backup jobs and to be able to automatically e-mail to our manag...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Select which management class for offload backup is used.

When making backup jobs we want to select which management class the spectrum protect for VE datamover must use for offload backups. We need the option to have different retentions requirements for long term storage on the spectrum protect server....
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Configure TSM4VE without admin account on Spectrum protect server

Make it possible to configure the TSM4VE interface without the need for an administrative account on the Spectrum protect server. Currently TSM4VE configuration needs an administrative SP account in order to configure the product - if no admin is ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

SVC-Allocated Core (CPU) per volume

Hi, Our customer need to have the following feature (available at competition): To monitor Core (CPU) usage by Volume and info on percentage used.
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

GPFS command confliction list

Our client uses IBM Spectrum Scale for NAS. Scale has many GPFS commands which have "mm" prefix, and some commands conflict each other.We want to know the conflict list on KnowledgeCenter for their daily operation.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to define the NTP server address through the TS7700 MI by using administrator user (customer)

Currently the NTP server can be configured in the TS7700 cluster or GRID by the IBM SSR. The customer wants to be able to define the NTP server adress through the TS7700 Management Interface by using its administrator user.
almost 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Command to check compressed usage size for each fileset quickly

We are performing IBM Spectrum Scale compression on each fileset on daily basis through gpfs policies. The df command is not showing the accurate usage for each fileset and only du shows the actual usage. But since du usually takes long time to pr...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Run all binaries in the installation folder to prevent security software blocking

Security software like Bit9 block Insights binaries. Insights binaries are blocked even after whitelisted by security admins because Insights files are copied to a different folder than the installation folder while running. Binaries we have seen ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

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