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Disable selected Alerts and prevent daily messages.

We want the ability to disable 'recommended' Warning / Alerts from sending daily emails from selected events.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

SPPlus : restore VM to my cloud provider

In Spectrum Protect plus , it would be interesting to have the ability to restore a VM to a cloud provider. As we can restore to alternate location today, alternate location could be then IBM Cloud or Amazon or Azure so the VM is being restored an...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Delete orphaned entries in DEDUPSTATS

In Spectrum Protect there is a requirement to use the GENERATE DEDUPSTATS command to determine the deduplication performance on an individual node / filespace level. The DELETE DEDUPSTATS command is used to tidy up old entries. However, it will le...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

See current system time in Gui when NTP is set.

Would like to be able to see the current system time in Gui on the NTP Tab, even if we have the possibility to use svqueryclock in Cli. Will make PD easier when comparing the time in tasks and events.
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Copy Data Managment - support for Oracle ASM cluster

Informations from customer about infrastructure and use case. "Oracle ASM HA, Grid Infrastructure ver. 19.7, BS database - cluster - 2 servers, Oracle Linux 7.9, kernel 4.14.35-2047.502.4.el7uek.x86_64, - ASM disk group, 21 volumes of 2 TiB, total...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Replication failures caused by decommissioned filespaces (virtual machines) are not sufficiently visible

In an environment where you have cross-replicating Spectrum Protect servers and where you decommission a virtual machine, subsequent replications (replicate node commands) will fail if there remains unreplicated data on one of the servers.Replicat...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

SPP GUI Language Option

Starting from SPP Version 10.1.4 the GUI detects the browser language to automatically choose the language for the Web GUI (for example to german). We need a way to configure the language for the Web GUI for the logged in user. This is because som...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Resources -> Pools panel displays 100 pools/page and not all the pools on 1 page.

We have more than 300 pools and it needs 4 pages to display all of them.
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

document privateSubnetOverride and make it switchable without shutting doen the whole cluster

This helps in adding (additional) high performance networks to existing clusters
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add zstd as a compression option

Although the existing compression options are okay sometimes it would be nice to be have more options where speed and decent compression ratios are achievable. Zstd has been gaining traction both in the Linux area and is already on some IBM tape d...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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