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Spectrum Protect Plus User Experience Enhancements

User enhancement requests for Spectrum Protect Plus Make the dashboard interactive i.e. ability to drill down into the protection summary, the unprotected summary, failed jobs and running jobs. Make the dashboard customisable. All data accessible ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPVE needs a Parameter to ignore failed quiesced snapshot if its not the last try

SPVE marks a schedule run with Warning if for one vm in the schedule one try to make a quiesced snapshot fails. This behavior makes no sense if INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS is set to more than one quiesced snapshot try. It only makes sense if the la...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

Update device password through the REST API

Per Security policy the passwords on our Brocade switches need to be changed every 90 days. With more than 200 Switches in the environment, its not feasible to change the password through an User Interface, whereby we have automated the password c...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon

Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Allow larger than 256 KiB blocks while accessing tape devices

As by TS009588298 we have performance issue while accessing tape drives, and using a larger block size (e. g. 2 Mebibytes instead of the now maximum 256 KiB) is improving performance a lot. This would even make it possible for us to backup the SP-...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow a single SPP server instance to backup/restore more than 2 billion files

This RFE is to remove the current limitation of ~2 billion files to be indexed for backup and restore operations on a single SPP server.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

vdisk default caching IOgrp assignment

Hi, While creating vdisk, Caching IOGRP assignment is automatic in a cluster containing more than 1 IOgrp. e.g. When vdisk is created on pool1 located on IOG1, its caching IOgrp by default should go to IOG1 maintaing local affinity in order to avo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Prometheus Exporter for Tape Library metrics

Currently the CLI and the REST API allows to monitor the TS4500 library by self written scripts. But it would be very useful to have a simple script which already provides all available metrics of the library to Prometheus. In our Environment we u...
3 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

API Connect support for Storage Fusion Regional DR asynchronous data replication

Need native supportability for Storage Fusion Regional DR asynchronous data replication for IBM API Connect (IBM Cloud Pak for Integration on Red Hat OpenShift). Since both are IBM owned, it would be great if both teams (Fusion and Cloud Pak for I...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

ECE edition 5.1.9 version support 256 storage node in one cluster

as title, we need 5.1.9 version（LTS）support 256 Necessary
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Functionality already exists

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