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AFM Azure Blob direct support

For data exchange, data access from multiple sites and also access of data from within Azure we would like to use Spectrum Scale AFM connected to a Azure blob similar as connected to S3 storage. Currently this will require a S3 / Azure converter l...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Dashboard "Volumes" option like On-Prem

In the On-Prem version of Insights (Spectrum Control), we have the "Volumes" option under "Storage" tab on dashboard panel which displays all the volumes from multiple IBM SVC clusters but can't find that on the cloud version. Can you please have ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Not under consideration

Prometheus Exporter for zimon metrics

For our compute and Storage systems we are running a monitoring setup based on Prometheus in combination with the Prometheus node exporter and Alert manager. To monitor spectrum Scale health we have some self written scripts collecting metrics. Bu...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

We would like to be able to backup AWS S3 buckets

We have many AWS S3 buckets that users update every day. Versioning is very expensive as there is no dedup/compression and this is especially true if you replicate across AWS regions. We would like to be able to backup and restore files to S3 like...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

SPP: Filter for job type in job history

It would be desirable to filter by "job type" in the job history window.For example: only filter for backup or replication jobs.This could be solved by just using a dropdown menu. Currently only a search for the job name is possible - unfortunatel...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Firmware Check

System: TS4500Actor: Customer Commerzbank is asking for enhancements regarding library firmware check.Case was opened on behalf of client Commerzbank as a follow up for a critical situation.
about 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Display retentionset in the BA client

The new Retention set function (aka OneProtect) is great but from the BA client (or TSM4VE) it's not possible to see which retention sets that are available. Id like to get the info on "q retset" info in the server into the BA client. On the cli s...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Differential alerts

Customer would like to receive not only static alerts (eg. data rate > 1 MB/sec) but also differential alerts (eg. data rate increased by more than 20% over the last week). They would like in particular to receive such alerts at consolidated le...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Add performance monitoring for fileset and storage pool per client node

When a storage pool or fileset is close to being filled up, it is possible to identify which client node is exerting the most write pressure through performance monitoring. This allows the relevant business unit to be notified to make adjustments.
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

SPP connection to ILMT

In our environment we collect all necessary licenses with ILMT for IBM spectrum protect. In SPP 10.1. according the documentation license requirements could be captured with ILMT (Chapter 19. Licensing).But with clarification on ILMT-side (TS00381...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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