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Make GPFS GUI port configurable

We would like to have the GPFS GUI port configurable to something different from 443.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Recommision node / reverting decommission node command

Implementing a recommission node command to stop the decommission node process without restoring database.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic RAID / Declustered RAID for Next DS8880

Distributed RAID or Declustered RAID or Dynamic RAID is especially popular with RAID-6 (what is now a default), and larger drive capacities.With larger drive capacities, the rebuild times in general grow a lot. Now this Distributed RAID not only d...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

excel report output without nice formatting would be better

The reporting feature of Spectrum protect plus has two output formats. PDF and Excel.To work with the data in bulk, excel is the preferred output, but it has too much formatting applied. I need one line outputs. Not the server name on one line and...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Restrict ProLE access to host-only

ProLE process listens on port 57321/tcp (configurable, may differ) on all IPs and network adapters for connections. One of our customers stumbled upon this during a security scan and considers it to be a security risk. Since in my understanding Pr...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Planned for future release

Backup history for specified date frame

Hallo all To get information about VM or application backup history, you should use /ngp/analytics/vmbackuphistory or /ngp/analytics/dbbackuphistory rest-api endpoints. It generally works... if you have small amount of VM's and your environment is...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Options to disable Dual control for few sessions

We have enabled dual control for our CSM server, but there are some sessions which are managed by API or manual control. In those cases, having dual control makes it little difficult to implement since we need a 2nd ID to approve the activity. Wou...
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

CTDB recovery timeout improvement

Multiple protocol nodes are stuck in wait state when pn01 is selected to be the master recovery causing loss of access of the whole cluster. However pn01 is hung and stuck due to kernel oops issue. After pn01 is rebooted and no GPFS running, pn03 ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Access of TS7700 Data in Cloud by Open Systems

FedEx has requested the ability to access via open/distributed systems, data they will send from their on-prem TS7700s to the cloud
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Ethernet Port Support

Need Ethernet support added to "Ports" so we get the same visibility as Fibre Channel Ports do. Hard to run IP Replication or ISCSI and have no visibility.P.S. I would of put a PMR # but your System is not set up to handle the "new" way of things....
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 4 Planned for future release

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