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SPP Server: view / check / download certificates

Hallo all As you know, there is no option to check / view certificate, e.g., for vSnap directly from SPP server. Check certificate might be required when non-default certs are in place. Under system configuration -> keys and certificates, there...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Encryption Recovery Key Capability for FS9200

Client (Alex Offord) requests an emergency recovery key capability in the event all SKLM servers are unavailable. This capability cannot be USB Based. They wish the capability to be similar to what is provided on DS8K
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

set disableDeduplication = bTrue for DSM_OBJ_DIRECTORY objects

Clarification of API document regarding client side deduplication, and that this has to be disabled for driectory type of objects objAttrArea.disableDeduplication = bTrue;objName.objType = DSM_OBJ_DIRECTORY; Or better; update the API so that clien...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Storage Device hierarchy - Virtualizer vs Storage devices

Spectrum Control must provide a hierarchical view of storage devices to show dependencies between backend devices and storage virtualisers such as Spectrum Virtualise or Scale.Today all are considered Storage devices and presented through a flat v...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Report sorting/filter options so we can view scheduled jobs or by other custom group

With the ever growing list of reports that are being created it is getting a bit of a hassle to find the report I need. I think we need to be able to filter by active/scheduled and also by a "folder" for use as a client,manager,team, etc. It could...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Querying actlog with option MSGNO can only be done with one argument, this should be extendend to use more arguments

The search in Actlog with the msgno option should be extended so that it is possible to search for several message numbers. For example, msgno=0293,0294 should be possible in a query so that you can see the start and end of an action, therefore yo...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Option to select the GUI language to override browser config

Provide the ability of selecting the GUI language rather to override the browser configuration if desired.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Recovery Agent for virtual environments - Save Spectrum Protect Server Connections

In recovery agent you can mount virtual machine disk based on: - spectrum protect server-- ip-- port- datamover- datacenter node The recovery agent only remember last entry. It could be very nice if it can remember different entries.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Hierarchical fileset quotas option

Add an option to mmcrfileset and/or mmchfileset where you can specify whether or not you want the fileset quota usage of all child filesets to "roll up" and be applied to quotas of any/all of their parent filesets. This probably makes the most sen...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Snapshot (FCM) support for DB2 PureScale (restore deprecated support)

This request is to restore support for DB2 PureScale snapshots in Spectrum Protect Snapshot for DB2 V8.1 onward. The client has a need to utilize fully supported Spectrum Protect (formerly FCM) snapshots for HA/DR in a supported DB2 PureScale envi...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

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