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Operation Center - Security Notification Enhancement

Hello Team, Looking for some enhancement for Operation center, Security Notification Feature
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

ntegrated Cooling with improved filtration and airgap sealing to mitigate particulate intrusion generated by Wildfires on the westcoast.

We offer an integrated cooling option with an air filter for the TS4500. It should be a straightforward matter to replace the existing filter with a model that has a higher rating to mitigate particulates generated by wildfires on the west coast. ...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 4 Not under consideration

API enhancement for File System Size and Utilization

In the current version (5.1.8) the api does not have a usable endpoint for the filesystem to show Current File System Size (Data/System) File system utilisation (size / %used)
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

For DRP show used_capacity_before_reduction in the GUI

When using DRP, Real and used capacity is not shown in the GUI. Used capacity is actuyally available from command line as "used_capacity_before_reduction". I suggest that this value is presented in the GUI for DRP volumes.
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Call home via non-config node during SVC cluster crash

Closing complaint AB6210 for Geodis SVC cluster crash, it has been identified that during the crash of the whole SVC cluster, no call home have been sent.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Easier filters for logical and physical switches in Spectrum Control

Add an easier way to filter logical and physical switches when viewing in Spectrum Control. There is a column called "virtual" with a yes/no answer that can help you sort the list. That helps you separate them from each other, but they are all sti...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Storage Agent write to cloud container

Would be very useful to allow a storage agent to write directly to an on-prem or off-site cloud bucket. In larger environment this would help spread the load and improve backup performance. Then allow the Storage agent to read from on-prem S3 and ...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Make VSNAP Application Independent of OS Kernel

ISPP VSNAP Application on Physical Server is bound to specific Kernel Version. Upgrade of Redhat Version cause Application to fail and it doesnot come up.
almost 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support of CentOS for SPfVE as Datamover

Due to licensing issues, we would like to use CentOS as the operating system. Unfortunately we could not find the support in the support matrix.After consultation with the support I was informed that this support is unfortunately not considered.Si...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

S3 Object Agent, Slow Metadata Retrieval

When querying metadata from the S3 object agent, e.g. requests against filesystem structure, dir list, deleting expired data/snapshots, response time is very slow (50min+). This causes applications (e.g. ElasticSearch) which use the API to throw e...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration