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Add Broadcom SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in Scale ECE

One of OEM partners are planning to replace existing SAS 3108 HBA with SAS 3808/3908 HBAs. But we didn't find SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the support list of ECE 5.1.9. The partner hope IBM can support SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the next release. They can pr...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

z/VM support on CSM

Currently z/VM support is managed only via GDPS using xDR proxies (SA MP). We are running lot of applications on zVM but the binaries for z/Linux on IBM disk is minimal and the application data is from a different storage hardware and only for the...
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale REST API Endpoint for mmafmconfig

We need a way that the Spectrum Scale REST API exposes the mmafmconfig command. In particular the mmafmconfig enable <fileset> is important for us.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Option to select files to restore from a directory tree view

SPP to allow file-level restore not just by searching for files or folder, but also by expanding a directory tree to input multiple selections
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VASA 3.0\DRP with child pools (VVol support)

IBM is lacking support for VASA 3.0 with VVol support with data reduction pools.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Migration plans for cloud offload data in SPP

Customers looking to make use of cloud offload generally have archival of snapshots in mind. This particular customer is currently using CloudA today may want move to CloudB sometime in the future. Currently when a cloud destination is changed in ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Postspone client issued delete backup commands from API and/or BA clients

Whenever a client that has 'deletebackup=yes' submitts a delete data request, this request should be queued for deletion pending approval from admin or executed after a few days. Maybe a optional field on the node 'DeleteDelay (days)'
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

NDMP - NAS backups - Encrypted communications with TLS 1.2/3

Required to secure communications in line with all other client server operations
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Multiple Retentions Standard object storage

The ability to have multiple retentions in Standard Object Storage going to a repository server on Spectrum Protect.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Exclude certain days or months from SLA policy jobs

Spectrum Protect Plus in-built scheduler doesn't have the ability to not run backups on certain days.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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