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Schedule upgrading Spectrum Scale Nodes on OpenShift with ibm-spectrum-scale-controller-manager

We have different OpenShift workers in different MachineConfigPools. Each Pool represents a different client. We want possibility to alter or schedule the upgrade order of spectrum scale nodes of worker pools which are in spectrum scale Cluster (C...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Multi-Tenancy for Encryption Keys

Secure Multi-Tenancy:Each tenant's data is encrypted with an encryption key that is unique to that tenant, to cryptographically protect each tenant's data from all other tenants (e.g. if they inadvertently gained access to it).
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

SCDM: Import existing GMCV relationships into CDM - take ownership back after change

SCDM only lets you create brand new relationships when managing a GMCV configuration. If existing relationships are present on the volumes (even if they were created by SCDM) you have to destroy them and then recreate - full initial re-sync necess...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Increase Performance of RMAN/TDPO backups and minimize crosscheck initiated sessions

after upgrade of BA Client and TDPO to 7.1.8 /8.1.2 Client level we have a massive performance problem which was caused by thousends of sessions initiated by RMAN Cross Check.As long we are using Dedup in target pool the change of filesperset opti...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Incremental Hyper-V Backup Like TDP for VE (VMware)

Please add the ability to perform incremental backups for Hyper-V using either the standard TSM BA Client or TSM for VE in a similar way as is provided for VMware backups.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus - G Suite support needed

We need local backup for ours users who has been migrate from Domino to G Suite.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy GUI need to show all consistency groups and their freeze times on first screen.

V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy needs to show all consistency groups and their freeze times on first screen. V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy GUI now takes 16 keystrokes to view 7 consistency group freeze times. It takes 3 keystrokes to view one consistency group freeze...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Enhanced Schedule for Months with 5 Weekends

Need another option to schedule backup Jobs for months with 5 weekends in a month ,
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

Omnipath network support by Elastic Storage Server 3500/6000 (now called IBM Storage Scale System 3500)

IDRIS is an Education and Research customer hosting on of the largest compute center in France for several research entities (CNRS, GENCI, ... : http://www.idris.fr/). They currently use a very large Spectrum Scale appliance configuration with Len...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Operations Center: Automatic PMR Creation and Support Bundle Upload

Automated open/creation of PMR from Spectrum Protect Operations Center and upload of Support Data Collection Bundle
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration