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Be able to run a pre upgrade validation script before a code upgrade

Ability to run a pre-upgrade validation script as part of planning phase of a code upgrade
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Webclient for 7.1.8 and 8.1.2

please know that in the Healthcare and Hospital environment, the Web Client is very highly used, and extremely important. Your statement that the Web client is not needed because the BA client GUI is available and can be used. However, you fail to...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

.NVRAM and vTPM restore needed with DP for VE VMware

Restore of a VMware guest does not include .NVRAM and vTPM. VMware points out, that backup software should take care of backup and restore of these two objects.https://vdc-repo.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/8f96698a-0e7b-4d67-bb6c-d18a1d10...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

Scale GUI - Need to improve pmcollector service with large amount of performance data

Problem: "pmcollector" service failed to start while there was large amount of performance data (about 10GB for 6 months). Performance data can not be shown on the GUI. And restarting the GUI did not help. ZIMON can not process large amount of per...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Improve SPP Scheduler

Scheduler is not enough flexible. Need an enhanced-like tsm schdeduler. Case :a VM can be backuped by differents Sla's, with theirs own retention and start time. we need :- to add some exclusions (exclude a soecific hour, day, week, month , exclud...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to change the time zone of TS7700 / TSSC NTP server etc currently stuck with UTC

I had a case open with IBM as we have setup alerting for the TSSC and TS7700 devices which go to a logging and monitoring tool. We noticed that the time on the events that were coming from the devices were in UTC. After looking at changing the tim...
6 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Under review

Ticket overview in Storage Insights

We would like to have the possibility to view all tickets, open ongoing tickets and closed aswell in the same window. As for now we have no overview to see all tickets but we have to manually open the "Tickets" tab under each system.
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Selectable location for Cloud instance (compliancy with regulations - showstopper to use SI)

Banking customer requires their Storage Insights instance to be hosted in Europe. If not, they are not allowed to use Storage Insights. Customer would therefore also have to be able to select the location for their instance.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Enhancements for DS8000 REST API

We are using REST API to get configuration data out from the DS8000 storage system.We would like to have more API request types to get also security informations from DS8000.We need to know the active authentication policy with properties, informa...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

AFM immutable file support

Need to be able to make files immutable in a home fileset for AFM in order to protect data from ransomware, data will be created at the cache site (single-writer) and transferred to the home site using AFM, data are to be retained at the home site...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release