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Allow the ability to run a report that will provide the differences between two policies

I need to track all of the customizations between the default policies and the custom ones. Right now, I need to document that by hand. It would be far better to be able to run a report and have it provide the information. I also could see the use...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Able to temporary disable a SMB or NFS export on protocol nodes.

There is no way to temporary disable and SMB or NFS exports. The only way is to delete the export. (At least for SMB exports) It would be more convenient and less likely that you make an error if you could disable it instead of delete it. It would...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

vSnap recovery from ISP offload

vSnaps of spectrum protect plus are at the moment secured by replicating the data to another vSnap. Currently only the backup data are offloaded through S3, but not the metadata vSnap needed to recover itself in case of crash or cyber attack. We ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Improve CLI security

Today (TS4500 release 1.8.x.x), role permissions modified with the CLI are only honored by Web UI users. CLI users do not honor the modified permissions, only the standard permissions inherited by the original role are applied.
about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

CES support on SLES 12 SP3 Little Endian

Recompile the CES packages to support SLES 12 SP3 on Power 8 and newer processors. There is already support in place for RHEL, but some customers are using SLES as their primary OS primarily due to SAP Hana installations and there is no support fo...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Support for SAP/Oracle running on AIX with Defender Data Protect

Many customers use SAP with Oracle on AIX. Since DDP already supports Oracle standalone on AIX, and SAP/Oracle on x86_64, is there roadmap to include SAP/Oracle on AIX as well?
4 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Add Support for IBM Spectrum Scale SafeguardCopy in Spectrum Protect as enhanced Cybercrime Solution for the Spectrum Protect Server Platform

In the area of cyberattacks its necessary to enhance the data-security in Spectrum Protect Installations. These attacks are coming. If we can immplement the scale safeguard Copy function in an spectrum protect installation for our GPFS Conf, DB, l...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Add Expand capability for fully allocated hyperswap volumes

Recently an option was added (8.4?) to FlashSystem software (Storwize) allowing easy expansion of in-use Hyperswap volumes through the GUI. An unfortunate restriction of this for us was that it cannot be used with fully allocated hyperswap volumes...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

For Storage Protect Backup/Archive client add a dsmcad systemd unit file that is instance aware.

Sometimes it is useful to run multiple dsmcad instances on a single host. Each will backup different file spaces to different tsm backup nodes. To accomplish this additional dsmcad systemd unit files must be created. systemd unit files have this t...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

Buffered log design Enhancement to take advantage of the 65 GB virtual volumes

The majority of TS7700 customers are using in the Data Class setting for Virtual Volume Sizes the default 3490 Counters Handling of “Surface EOT”.There are various reasons why a customer does not want to switch to “Wrap Supported” e.g., they back-...
7 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

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