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Spectrum Protect for HADOOP File System

There is a need for Spectrum Protect to protect Hadoop file system
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Add Support for Windows Directory Junction Links / symbolic links

We "extend" disks by creating Symbolic Links using Microsoft Windows mklink.exe command. i.e.mklink /j f:\DataF\Departments\CofE-PD\PRJ\Projects\2020 k:\Data\Departments\CofE-PD\PRJ\Projects\2020 This will Create a directory junction f:\DataF\Depa...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Adding Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 to the IBM DS8000

The future of DS8000 for IBM Z and LinuxONE will need to add Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 interface to the DS8000 to satisfy the needs of the AI Data centers. Please, refer to the other complementary idea "Adding Compute Express Link CX...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Hide snapshot directory

Hide the snapshot directory by removing its entry from the readdir(3) system call and/or getdents(2) system call. Currently snapshot directories are not actually hidden, they are fully visible but just have a name beginning with a dot. That is jus...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Save failed commands ran on cluster to be viewed in audit logs with output in Blue Diamond

* SME Martin Dzhagarov suggested this , so creating this RFE * - Where were supposed to look for failed commands.This is Blue Diamond and I don't think that it show up in the audit log- Failed commands do not show up in the Audit log. Can the cust...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

support of AzureStack in Spectrum Protect Plus

we want to move our backups to cloud as 'second backup'. Our cloud provider offers AzureStack /pleAzureStack/, but in menu of Spectrum Protect plus is only Azure. Could you add support of AzureStack in some of near updates?
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Event log enhancements

Enhanced monitor of internal process and better detail on issues. Lack of reporting on critical internal components hinders determination of issues and recovery.
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

DS8K HMCs should recommend regular power recycles

DS8K should recommend regular maintenance procedures for HMC power cycles to prevent hangs. This could be yearly, bi-yearly, etc., as long as it was a time period sufficient to prevent hangs due to unforeseen circumstances. This would prevent HMCs...
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Scale compatibility

Customer would like to avoid having to use SKIPACLUPDATECHECK And UPDATECTIME attributes in Spectrum Protect when backing up Spectrum Scale data
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Glacier on TSM - IBM Spectrum Protect

Data restoration from Glacier using TSM Client manager.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

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