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Horizontal scaling of spcetrum environement in Openshift

In order to optimize the general performance of the Discover spectrum environment implemented in Openshift, it seems important to us to consider that benefiting from the horizontal scalability capabilities in Openshift would be a must For example,...
about 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Rebalancing datamovers for a TAG-based schedule should exclude EXCLUDED VMs

When running a command to rebalance assigned datamovers for a TAG-based schedule I was surprised that the VMs with TAG 'Ecxluded' of category 'Backup Management (IBM Spectrum Protect)' was included and had a datamover-tag assigned. The rebalancing...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Add all of the information in the ACTLOG receiver events to the SYSLOG receiver destination

The activity log receiver receives events of the format04/24/2020 08:02:06 ANR2017I Administrator TSMADMIN issued command: ASFDASF (SESSION: 773) but the syslog receiver receives events of the format2020-04-24T08:02:06 dsmserv[14887]: UVIC_ADM4: A...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add Spectrum Visualize internode cluster traffic to Spectrum Control and Storage Insights

There isn't a way in SC or SI to monitor this performance.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Make GUI less mouse-scrolling-mayham

When working in GUI (I long for a CLi) it is divided into different parts using scrollable text-boxes. No part of GUI seem to be resizable, which makes working in GUI hard. When choosing a SLA I need to scroll the SLA-policy-text-box and if I scro...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DEACTIVATE DATA command enter a list of nodes, or date range or possibly of another platforms (DB2, SQL) NODEGROUP

Will DEACTIVATE commands be able to be executed to enter a series a series of NODES, or for a NODEGROUP? Will the commands be able to be executed for a certain date range, and not only with the current option of TODATE=TODAY-xx days? Is it planned...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

check if underlying file system is mounted when creating a NFS share

When a new NFS share is created, the mmnfs command should check if the underlying file system is mounted on all CES nodes and fail if this precondition is not fulfilled.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Improve VM Restore GUI

Remove the necessity of choosing "Type of Restore." Make one of the options (on-demand) the default. Add a button to show all available restore points without having to poke around in the calendar.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SIP & SC: allow wildcards in the exclude list for storage reclamation

Storage Insights for Spectrum Control environment: "Reclaim storage" is useful, but customers need more handle on the exclude list. Now they can exclude volumes from the reclaim storage list, but customer wants to exclude certain partial volume na...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SPP support for Cloud applications

Customers start asking for data protection of cloud applications to a larger extent.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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