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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) ...
over 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...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Users should not be able to view every other users' filespaces

Currently, any authorised user of TSM can view the list of filespaces owned by any other user (provided that user is running on the same platform) by giving the "fromnode" argument to 'query filespace' in dsmc, for instance:> q fi -fromnode="my...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

When a server node fails, the client should hang instead of reporting "stale file handle".

When a server node fails, the client should hang instead of reporting "stale file handle".
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Client memory automatically shrinks.

When clients open a lot of files, MMFSD takes up a lot of memory. When the file is closed, the memory should be freed automatically.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

AIX v7.3 support for IBM Spectrum Control Server

Add AIX v7.3 to the list of OSs supported by IBM Spectrum Control Server.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Support for HTTP proxy on fusion baclkup to S3

More and more customers wants to do fusion backups to Public S3 to be able to recover environments offprem, but 99 of them are using HTTP proxy to validate access to outside world. Support needed for HTTP proxy with validations usage when configur...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Linux command for managing Spectrum Discover

Most UNIX/Linux users are used to work on the command line. I would like to propose the following idea: create a command called "sdcli" (Spectrum Discover cli) or "dmcli" (Data Management cli) which can be a shell or Python script and can be insta...
over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Automate Kubernetes Integration (Installation, Configuration & B/R)

Currently, integrating and configuring Kubernetes Backup (PVCs) is a manual and complex step. It has to be done manually in the K8s cluster and requires a large bunch of preparations and various commands to be executed to get it integrated. Additi...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SP Client - Suppress interactive prompts

Hello, we do a lot of scripted restores and backups. We found that in a replicated environment under certain conditions a restore operation would for example prompt with "ANS2120W The last store operation date reported by the server .... does not ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

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