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optimize output in the microcode "health check" panel in the DSGUI

We moved from 89.32.40.0 to 89.33.35.0 using the internal microcode function of the DS GUI.Everything works fine, but we think that the UX and GUI output of the "System Health Check" could be visualy better. So you can better understand what you s...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

SP move data out of CLOUD containers

Once TSM/SP data ends up in a CLOUD pool, there is no way to every move it anywhere else. We should be able to move data out of a cloud pool. MOVE NODADATA might be relevant, but would only work if you could specify source and destination pools. T...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 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

Operation Center - Logs and alerts for attempted or executed Restricted commands, new admin creation and change of password

System: Operation Center - all platformsActor: User needing new feature Description: List of potential destructive/restricted commands attempted and executed in last 24 hrs in alert section. Also, a mechanism to send email alerts each time restric...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 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...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Allow remote mount for fileset in different paths on the remote cluster to mou

With the new functionality of remote mount controlled by fileset, it gives the opportunity to grant or deny access to different filesets within the same file system. Although the functionality is deployed on the owning cluster, at the remote clust...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to send custom reports via OC as csv attachments.

Having the ability to generate custom reports as csv attachments provide extra flexibility for post-processing.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale / ESS soft lockup issue

I need help on this requirements for the system using Power9 AC922 servers and ESS 3000 storages. The customer has faced soft lockup issues with their applications running on AC922 which Spectrum Scale client runs on as well. They are definitely t...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

Replicate retentionset and retention rules

I have found a pretty bad design flaw in the retentionset. We use replication to move data off old SP servers to new hardware (or between OS).If the source server have retentionsets, then the data is replicated to the target server but not the ret...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Replication, Resume Backup on Target vSnap

When vSnap replication for backups/SLA is enabled, incremental backup is only possible to the one, primary vSnap. If vSnap on primary site fails/unavailable, currently a new FULL backup on the secondary/replication site must be done, even if it ho...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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