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Test ISPP with Linux 8.5

For ISPP server we have currently Linux version of 7.X and Linux team is planning to upgrade to RedHat Linux version 8.5 and they cant go for 8.4 as it has security vulnerability Please advice correct version of ISPP which is compatible with for L...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Application Inventory Job Change Report/Alert

An Oracle database that exists on the database server is no longer being found or displayed in SPP. This is not considered a failure, so no reporting is provided. Customer needs an alert or report to see the changes to the inventory job. The parti...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Feature request: Scan all the errors necessary to identify corrupted files on a disk (LUN)

Issue: mmdeldisk command fails because there are corrupt files on an NSD (LUN). The feature should run mmrestripefs, mmdeldisk, mmrpldisk to check for any errors. By just scanning for the errors those commands produce, the clients could run it eas...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Need expanded reporting capabilities in SPP

Customer is unable to do true custom reporting to get reports that are meaningful to their business units. Currently there are only the canned reports in PDF format available. Customer would like to have the ability to build out reports in a simil...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Accuracy of Spectrum control summary overall storage usage , it didnt show sum up virtual capacity of SGC volumes

Spectrum Control is not accurate enought. DS8K business today is very often using the SGC Backup as majors tactics to protect against cyber threats. Would be very very valuable to have this storage capacity easy to be followed up from a simple GUI...
11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Multiple Recovery Volumes from same SGC Backup volume

The ability to have multiple R (Recovery) Volumes from the same B (Backup) volumes would support where one R volume is presented to infrastructure for forensic analysis and cleaning etc., and another R volume from the same B source presented to ot...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

RFE 51: Automated vdisk mirroring functionality

One of the big advantages SVC offers is the ability to non-disruptively move vdisksbetween backend storage arrays - SVC pools. However this is currently a manually intensive process and requires the administrator to start and stop vdiskmirrors. Th...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Enforce stricter controls for config changes/limits on VTS TS7700 Hardware

The IBM TS7700 hardware allows changes in the configuration/limits which could lead to a complete lockdown on the front-end, e.g. when increasing the premigration queue far above the PMTHLVL. This status, in particular, cannot be changed nor the q...
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Support Red Hat IPA for mmuserauth

Red Hat IPA / FreeIPA is an identity and authentication source similar to Active Directory. It has LDAP for user information, and kerberos for authentication. It can integrate with Active Directory through trust and replication, and will then cont...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

No comma's in session and process numbers

For almost 20 years I work with ADSM/TSM/ISP I'm super annoyed that you can't do an easy copy/paste of the session or process number to the cancel command if the number is higher then 999 Please remove the comma when you do a query session or quer...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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