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Fusion Licensing - IBM License service

Large telco customer would needs to use IBM License service service which will be used by all Cloud pak and other iBM OpenShift based license. Fusion has 4 key capabilities which are part of license VPC of worker node Primary storage (TB) bacukp s...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

SPP default policy creation after software upgrade

At initial install some SLA policies are created by default. I have no containers and Amazon EC2 instances to protect, so I don't need the default policies "Container" and "EC2" and have deleted both policies. But they are recreated after every sy...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

ISPP: Support btrfs - Single file restore & File indexing

We see a huge lack of compatibility in ISPP for ALL Suse customers worldwide.currently btfrs is not supported, which will cause two main issues:- Fileindexing is not supported, so direct single file restore is not possible- If you do an "instant a...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Fusion Data Foundation Regional DR support for CP4BA

A lot of customers are already on CP4BA on OpenShift, and using FDF as their storage solution. There is a need for a Disaster Recovery solution using Fusion Data Foundation Regional DR, and to be tested with CP4BA especially these capabilities: BA...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 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...
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

GUI Audit Log Improvements

Streamline GUI Audit logging. It's a little noisy which makes it a challenge to seek out legitimate events. There are also basic critical events/actions that should be included which appear to be missing.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Improvement in Data connections filter in UI

In the Spectrum Discover web interface under "main menu" -> "Data Connections" -> "Connections" a filter would be very useful especially because we are already dealing with more than 300 data sources. At the moment it is very cumbersome to f...
about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Functionality already exists

Exclude File System Type

Would like to exclude per the file system type.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under 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...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Scale VMWare ESX V7 Support

Hallo,we plan to migrate our SAS-Grid Cluster to a VMWare based Plattform. These Platform is installed with ESX Version 7.0 U2. But currently scale support only V6.x.This gap stop our Migrationsplans currently. With the introduction ov Version 7 E...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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