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Satellite CoreOS images deployment

Make it possible via automation scripts in Fusion GUI to deploy also Core OS satellite Images, today only RHEL 7 and RHEL 8 is possible.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Planned for future release

REPL for log collection supported by Spectrum Control

RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in Spectrum Control would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Restart failed backup

SPP should provide the option to restart backups and try again to protect failed VMs of the previous run.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Disable ransomware alert for specific nodes

Ransomware detection is always on, and cannot be disabled. Every login has a pink banner because 5 nodes are never near their long-term average for size and dedupe ratio.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Planned for future release

PLAC0812-1536 Parallel access read support for virtual tape

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: la Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC0812-1536 Parallel access read support for virtual tapeHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: Closed ...
almost 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Planned for future release

Adding Enhancment on Measurement Monitoring on level of Fileset quota

Because in our company GPFS structure based on three or four filesystem like /production & /test and we created million of fileset based on project name but unfortunately some of these filesets reach maximum quota 100% and application down bec...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

authentication and authorization mechanism for application groups and general groups

Customer is India's Largest MSP and deployed A9000R with Spectrum Control. Customer requires functionalities which is part of Public Cloud Feature.(i) Managing Domains of A9000 (HSM) through Spectrum Control as single Console would help them to ma...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Add root cause Db2 messages to job log in SPP

When a DB2 restore job in SPP fails, the DB2 message including the root cause of this failure is not shown in the job log. And therefore not on the ISPP gui itself. For finding the cause why the job failed, you need to logon to the ISPP server, di...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

move retention data from one storage pool to another

It's not currently possible to move retention data from one storage pool to another. It is possible to move retention data to different volumes in the same storage pool. LTO9 tape volumes. That said, this might be a little more difficult to do wit...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus File level Restores

Spectrum Protect Plus Restoration and cataloging not very user friendly.It would be nice if you can select and tick the folders and files you want restored. similar to Spectrum Protect (TSM) & Backup Exec and other backup software.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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