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Centralized Configuration Management for SPP Server

Provide option of centralized configuration management for SPP when using multiple SPP Servers.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TS7700 Rsyslog add possibility to select log types that are sent using RSyslog

From the MI we can select the messages that we want to send to a Rsyslog server but not the log types. From the documentation: Items 0 through 15 are system defaults and items 16 through 18 are specific to TS7700. So we wish to be able to select o...
about 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Allow user to display "volume full name" and "volume short name" at his conveniance using existing table twistie

In huges banking Z/os csm implamentation, we can deal with many DS8000 having each more than 100 000 volumes. Having this ability will avoid fingerchecks when usin CSM GUI to perform troubleshooting tasks when things are not work as expected.
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus: Replication Job ends in error when replicating only MSSQL transaction logs

Based on our SLA with the customer we need to synchronize SQL log backups to the secondary vSnap server ( with the replication job) every two hours. The replication job after the backup job is always successful, because volumes for data+log backup...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Provide additional protection when using the decommission command against Oracle or DB2 nodes.

Spectrum Protect Oracle and DB2 client decommission can lead to immediate data expiration and data loss. Due to the copygroup settings required for Oracle and DB2, the risk of using the decommission node command can inadvertently lead to data loss...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

SP Plus interface enhancement: job monitor

In the Job monitor tab, add possiblity to filter entries to easily differentiate administrative tasks and backup tasks . Basically the Type column is already there but cannot be even used to sort the entries.Furthermore another column providing th...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

speed up PROTECT STGPOOL to local tape

The PROTECT STGPOOL to local tape is way too slow. In a sample environment with quite powerful hardware we only achieve around 200 GB/hour of througput with PROTECT STGPOOL while on the same server BACKUP STGPOOL from other non-container pools run...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Schedule upgrading Spectrum Scale Nodes on OpenShift with ibm-spectrum-scale-controller-manager

We have different OpenShift workers in different MachineConfigPools. Each Pool represents a different client. We want possibility to alter or schedule the upgrade order of spectrum scale nodes of worker pools which are in spectrum scale Cluster (C...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Alerting method for the status of data collectors

It would be useful when a data collector has stopped randomly, having an alerting method would allow us to rectify this and get the collector working again.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Functionality already exists

Spectrum Scale should support resource management using cgroups version 2 with systemd

The current systemd version in RHEL 8 is now capable doing resource management using cgroups version 2.We are interested in the feature to configure I/O bandwidth. But to use it a device is needed: IOReadIOPSMax=device IOPS, IOWriteIOPSMax=device ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration