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Spectrum Protect Plus - offloading data

The data offload/data copy options currently available in Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.7 do not offer enough flexibility in terms of what data types can be sent to what offload destination (cloud or repository server).If you also want to send SPP da...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Improve HSM logging to contain filenames

Add a further option to HSMLOGEVENTFLAGS to also log the filenames and recallid for transparent recalls. Currently there's only exobjid and handle. Further extend dsmq toa) to produce machine readable outputb) show extobjid and handle
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

DS8K Configuration menu should not accept an IPv4 address that ends in zero or one

DS8K Configuration menu should not accept an IPv4 address that ends in zero or one. These are typically reserved for gateways/routers on a network and should not be assigned to end devices.
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) "What's New" Operations Center Feed

Spectrum Protect customers often are unaware when new versions of the solution are released and what relevant new features are added. This often causes issues as the applications and software they are protecting continues to update and requires sp...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Increase limit for number of independent filesets

Limiting the number of independent filesets to 1000 is a showstopper. Some features we are using require independent filesets (We are using --per-fileset-quota and --filesetdf. We are also considering using fileset snapshots for backup on this sys...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

TDP for MS SQL FCM GUI Customization

The way information is displayed in the FCM GUI interface, restore tab, is cumbersome to use, especially when dealing with multiple instances. We should be able to customize the column layout, and sort on multiple columns.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

SPP filesystem backup support

SPP Physical server backup server support is required mainly for file server
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Erase on Scratch (Hardware)

Last year we were directed to use Erase on Scratch(All) on our z/OS Systems. Testing was done on our Development Systems, but due to long elapsed times for Batch jobs, Erase on Scratch was turned off. We have a mix of DS8886's and DS8870 DASD Subs...
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Scale GUI Dashboard Nodes by Latency

Add the ability to "Cherry Pick" and display in the Scale GUI the top nodes by latency. This could be on the statistics widget or a new widget. Add the granularity of client nodes, NSD nodes, nodes by nodeclass XYZ, or custom picked nodes. Additio...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Scale GUI Statistics Save, Generate report, and Forward Selections

Provide the ability in the Scale GUI Statistics monitoring page to save custom settings for easy re-use and ability to forward these selections to the Dashboard page for use in a monitoring widget. There are pre-set statistics monitoring selection...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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