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Please implement a "relabel_empty" feature similar to relabel_scratch, VTLs need it

Please implement a "relabel_empty" feature similar to relabel_scratch, VTLs need it. With the "relabel_empty" feature cartridges will be relabeled when they are assigned the status of EMPTY again after being freed up. The write from begin of tape,...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TS4500 LDAP auth has a flaw

User authentication up against LDAP does not work in our environment. The reason for that is that we have brackets in our AD users Display Name. That issue was discovered in IBM case TS005232687It is not an option to delete the brackets in our AD ...
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

SVC stretched cluster learning Easy Tier heatmap on secondf copy of Vdisk mirror

Easy Tier considers each pool separately, without knowledge about mirrored VDisks. In a stretched cluster with full site awareness and host failover cluster as application, the pool in the production site (where the host failover cluster lives mos...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Replicate NDMP TOC

NDMP TOC still has to be backed up into a file class, and cannot be replicated. This is unacceptable for the "push everything in the cloud" mentality.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Server database online REORG cancelling running process & sessions

During online IBM Spectrum Protect Server database REORG current running process/sessions are cancelling. I don't have free window to run reorg alone. Below are the tables creating problem 11/10/2017 11:58:26 AM ANR1880W Server transaction was can...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Provide Splunk Integration for Spectrum Protect Plus

Allow SPP audit logs and VSNAP logs to be forwarded to Splunk or another platform for easier monitoring.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

When using Protocol nodes, the export IPs should be the only one to allow mounting shares

With the use of Protocol Nodes, the CES requires IPs for export shares. However, even having the IP specific for share, the internal IPs (NODE IPs), which are used for administration only, also allow the NFS Mounts. The request is to isolate the n...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

SVC stretch cluster volume select preffered node

When creating a new SVC stretch cluster volume, the site location (or the preferred node ID) cannot be selected. Also, it cannot be set until after the format of the volume is done. But can be changed at a later time using movevdisk.We need a func...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Support for up to 8 IO Group Systems

Seeking support for up to 8 SVC IO groups, 16 nodes in total.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Modify 'Protected and Unprotected VMs' report to allow display of only unprotected VM

The current report shows both protected and unprotected VMs in report and allow to hide Unprotected VM. However there is no report which can display only unprotected VM. Business Justification: We have thousands of VMs part of protection and their...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration