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Cancel process ALL

Add extra Cancel Process options - Cancel Process ALL- Cancel pro migration (or cancel migration)- Cancel pro backup (or cancel backup) For each process name a Cancel command. Cancel Expiration and Cancel Export already exists.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

mmchconfig and mmvdisk configure need to be more transparent

Today, there is no association between mmvdisk configure and mmchconfig. The RFE is to have one command for setting both GPFS parameters and mmvdisk and for mmvdisk to have a way to preserve any previously customized parameters.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Nodes with retention sets require to have dedicated metadata to be replicated to target server void expiration of data

Hi Team, i having issue in performance on Source TSM server due to TSM DB size is more than 13TB in size, so my management requested to split current TSM server with Multiple server (2 new TSM server). So by moving Filesystem backup for top 40serv...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Operation Center Client Deployment Support for Ubuntu/Debian

Operation Center does not support Linux86 Ubuntu platform for client deployments.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Storage Insights Ability to Import a list of Departments and applications by CSV

Our customer is requesting the ability to import Departments and applications via a CSV import mechanism
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

FS9500 - inbound CHAP where we can manipulate the secret per host bases

ISCSI- Mutual Chap authentication Inbound: We see option to set system wide chap secret authentication for ISCIS attached hosts. Currently IBM offering System wide chap (being configured via chsystem CLI) is used for two way chap authentication wh...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Vdisk mirror – out of sync condition / reporting

It would be a great improvement to show stale copies immediately in the Event Log, send as an SNMP trap or for example an email notification.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

mmbackup enhancements

mmbackup has no support of application that generate the Content of the same file with a temporary file, and if finish renamed these temp file to original name. SAS-Institute with the *.sas7bdat.lck as temp and *.sas7bdat as original filename are ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Support for SLES 15 using Spectrum Protect DP for HANA

I need a statement of support for DP for ERP SAP HANA on SLES 15
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Planned for future release

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