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DECOMMISSION NODE/VM with Enddate

Add date parameter to DECOMMISION NODE and DECOMMISSION VM command.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SLA policy without schedule in SPP GUI

SPP GUI doesn't have any option to have a SLA policy without any schedule.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Delete a single VM or data backup in SPP

30 Aug 2018 11:57 AM Mike, I would recommend opening an RFE and requesting this functionality. Robert[Less]30 Aug 2018 11:57 AMrobertsd (IBM) changed Status from Waiting for IBM to Awaiting your feedback.30 Aug 2018 11:49 AMMike Swartz (Customer) ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Ganesha Per Client Statistics

ganesha_mgr/ganesha_stats allow only seeing either the overall NFS operations or the per-export breakdown of the NFS operations. There is no command that displays the per-client operations of a particular export which is critical when trying to tr...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

TSM-Server Support for ONTAP NDMP CAB Feature

NetApp offers since Clustered ONTAP(cDOT) 8.2 the NDMP Feature CAB (Cluster Aware Backup). Data Volume movements within a ONTAP Cluster (which may consist of currently up to 24 Storage Controllers; by "Vol Move" command) is an liked Feature for al...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Make synchronizing passwords easier on data collectors

Change the way updating passwords for the data collectors works. Basically by adding a item under the block devices/connection tab to stop using the userid/password while you are resetting the data collector userid/password on your disk array. We ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Allow DRAID6 to be configured with 2 rebuild areas when using FCMs

A customer is requesting that we allow them to create a DRAID 6 array with 2 rebuild areas when using FCMs . Or allow him the option to have a "hot spare"disk that could jump into the array.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Need of dsmadmc command to query "SET ACCESS" grants

I would like to have the possibility to query "SET ACCESS" grants for all nodes and users from dsmadmc client like the single client user can do by dsmc client and command "QUERY ACCESS" for its own grants. I can do this kind of query connecting d...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

SVC GMCV single shot mode

Currently the Global Mirror with Change Volumes is designed to be a continuous replication technology.Customer have brought up the suggestion that the underlying implementation could actually also be used for Snapshot based backups that will be tr...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

When cases are created it would be beneficial if we could change the case owner from the default based on who is dealing with the issue .

This would prevent unnecessary updates to the default case owner when they may not be interested . When we have a large number of cases to deal with sometime it would be better to just get updates for cases that you are interested in .
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

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