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Shorten the pending IO time to 5-30s during node expel

When node in ECE cluster was expelled from cluster, the IO pending time is long as 1-3 minutes. Some of applications failure due to long pending time,especial to OLTP or AI training jobs. Competitors which using traditional dual-controllers mode c...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

DBBackup to the cloud

Our customer is rolling out 24 Spectrum Protect servers, and we have found that there is STILL no way to get database backups into the cloud directly. Because AIX does not support CIFS mounting Azure (requires SMBv3, which was rejected by AIX prod...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

IBM support ideas for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 for 2023 for TS7700 and TS4500

This would benefit Wells Fargo for the most updated security.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Better ability to filter out nodes when creating retention rule

In an big vmware deployment you want your retention rules to be as dynamic as possible. That is you want ability to create an advanced filter to filter out the virtual machines (VM's) to be included in the retention set. In an vmware environment y...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

IBM SP Protect server support on w2k19

I have to install a new IBM Sectrum protect server.I wish to use the OS Windows 2019 Server but I've seen that IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.9 is not supported on this version.I really wish to use this version of OS (Windows 2019) is possible to know w...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

SPP within the Federal Market

Within the Federal Market, we are unable to sell Spectrum Protect Plus as it uses the CentOS as its base OS. CentOS is not able go through the DOD Security Technical Implementation Guide process (STIG) to identify vulnerabilities for the OS or the...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

double library libTsmViSdk.so / unnecessary space usage

We noticed that the libTsmViSdk.so library is included into the TIVsm-API64 and TIVSM-BA package: bash-4.4$ find /opt/tivoli/ -name libTsmViSdk.so /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin64/libTsmViSdk.so /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/libTsmViSdk.so bash-4....

SPP report creation

Spectrum Protect Plus has very interesting reports, but we need some individual views in virtual machine backup. We need to know, for example, the time and end of the backup of a respective VM individually and not just the time that the total SLA ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Segregation of Duties in Spectrum Protect server

Client wants to completely segregate the authority to manage accounts in Spectrum Protect from all other Spectrum Protect authorizations.Current setup where a System account is required to manage admin IDs and -rights which includes all other righ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

VM's Removing from SLA

We have identified and issue where VM's are automatically removing from SLA due to xyz reason and got to know this is as per design. So we should have some info report where we can see how many VM's removed automatically from SLA after last backup...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration