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ESS and Spectrum Scale GUI display min/max performance statistics

Clients have a meeting with Markus R. for the feedback on the GUI, statistics charting and REST interface on Feb 13, 2020. One key requirement is to display the aggregation of performance statistics to track spikes bykeeping min/max values and not...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

Access DB2 with Python

How to connect to DB2 Database with or via a python script?
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Send notification via SS and ESS for expiring encryption certificate

As the expiring certificate is expiring, the warning messages will be printed periodically into the GPFS daemon log (/var/adm/ras/mmfs.log.latest) in upcoming 5.0.x release. This RFE is to notify users via email or whatever means configured in ESS...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Show Unprotected Applications

As the System discovers "unprotected VMs" and "unprotected Databases/Applications", I'd like to get a query / view, which are these.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

SRA - unmap source volumes from hosts during failover

source volumes are only unmapped from the hosts during SRM "reprotect" operation instead of during "failover" operation
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Shorten AFM/DR RPO Interval

The current design is that minimal RPO interval is 60 minutes. That is too long and will loss of huge data. Customer expect to set it to 1-5 minutes. 1-5 minutes RPO interval is acceptable in most of scenarios and it can help us to catch up compet...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

FCM for VMware: Support for duplicate UUIDs

In Vmware environments it is a common procedure to clone a VM. After this is done, the new VM gets the same UUID as the VM where it was cloned from. A post process is necessary in order to give the cloned VM a new UUID. If this post process is not...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM for VMware: GUI field "backup end time" should be optional

When a new backup schedule is created, the GUI forces the user to enter a backup end time. These fields should be optional because some clients want the schedule to run forever.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM for VMware: For VM restore GUI should ask for Storage Resource Group

If a VM is being restored to another location the GUI does not ask for a Storage Resource Group. This implies that it is impossible to restore the VM to any Storage Resource Group. Instead the VM is being restored outside an Storage Resource Group...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

add webproxy/authentication for TSM Auto Client Deployment ftp access

The Auto Client Deployment function in the TSM Admin Center has the ability to connect to the IBM ftp servers and automatically download client packages, which assists managing large corporate environments. Unfortunately, large corporate environme...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration