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Provide IP filtering capability for the DS8000 platform

Provide IP filtering capability (or an allow list) that would allow customer inbound access to the DSGUI, DSCLI and WUI (HMC) for a list of configurable IP addresses (IPv4 or IPv6 format) or DNS names and explicitly deny everything else. The IP fi...
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Have up to 10 data connections in circle graph

The home screen of the Spectrum Discover web interface shows a circle graph with all data connections. This may be useful if you only have up to 10 data connections but it is confusing with more data connections. It may also cause problems when we...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

Report FE capacity for DB2 databases in OC

We want to see the "Capacity Used" values for DB2 databases in the "License Estimation" of the Spectrum Protect Operation Center.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Extend valid settings for option "etfcmoverallocationmax" on mk|chmdiskgrp commands and its applicability in general.

Currently the option "etfcmoverallocationmax" offers four valid settings "100,200,300,400" to set the maximum over-allocation which Easy Tier can migrate onto FCM arrays, when the array is used as the top tier in a multi-tier pool. It currently wo...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Support adding space by extending existing luns to vSnap server

vSnap server should be able to have it storage luns extended. Typically, we would make 4 luns of 4 Tb each available to a vSnap server. When it needs to be extended, we just increase the existing luns by 1 or 2 Tb each.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Parallelization/enhancement of pool migrations of individual large files

When running migrations between different pools often it appears the tail latency of the ILM run is dictated by a small number of large files This seems to be due to the pool migration of any individual file being a single threaded activity that i...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Manager database backup to a Cloud bucket - adding custom CAs

The COS Manager database backup to a Cloud bucket feature needs some enhancements. Today you can configure the Manager database backup to an S3 bucket using either the Manager UI or the REST API with any HTTPS endpoint using a certificate issued b...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

SPP ram requirements

Spectrum Protect Plus has 2 main components; SPP appliance (management) and vSnap.They both has high amount of RAM requirement.We are having issues when explaining this requirement to our customers as MSP. Because as the amount of data grows, the ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Detection of unbalanced metrics for spectrum virtualize machine

example 1In spectrum virtualize family , IO group is made of two nodes.Usually the metrics of those two nodes should be about similar, if two nodes (of the same IO group) are showing very different value for same metric this may be the sign for a ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Update of SPP image in Azure Market Place to a more recent version

The customer is deploying SPP on prem and in Azure Cloud. While they are at 10.1.15 in their on-prem setup, the image in Azure market place is still at 10.1.11, which is outdated. Request to update the Azure Marketplace image to at least 10.1.14
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Needs more information

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