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SPP GUI Language Option

Starting from SPP Version 10.1.4 the GUI detects the browser language to automatically choose the language for the Web GUI (for example to german). We need a way to configure the language for the Web GUI for the logged in user. This is because som...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

"Too Many Groups" - Need to increase the amount of GIDs for Scale Linux from the current limit of 1020.

if a person was a member of more than X groups, they couldn't access the GPFS filesystem. The customer opened a ticket about it with IBM. This would have been awhile ago – 2019 or so? I don't have the ticket number. Census has quite a few projects...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Add export logs to IBM (call home) via REST API Endpoint.

With this customer could automated the Datacollection and the export to IBM Ecurep.
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Delete orphaned entries in DEDUPSTATS

In Spectrum Protect there is a requirement to use the GENERATE DEDUPSTATS command to determine the deduplication performance on an individual node / filespace level. The DELETE DEDUPSTATS command is used to tidy up old entries. However, it will le...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

We need this to be MSP friendly to allow multi tenanted view of our customers

We are an MSP and it would be a good way to monitor our customers environments
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Data Management Service (DMS) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Windows server as virtual machine on KVM based hypervisor.

In order to be compliant with IBM to get support and to have more flexibility around Spectrum Protect, we need to be able to run Spectrum Protect server as a virtual machine on a KVM based hypervisor (RHEV/Proxmox VE/Native KVM etc...) with Window...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow IBM Flashsystems to have a trash bin to recover deleted volumes

Create a trash bin on SpecV to allow customer to recover deleted volumes by mistake with an auto-delete parameter after X days
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

LSS Display capability in Internal Resources page per Storage Array

It would be nice to have the ability to report on LSS on a DS8K. It would be nice if we could report on LSS and the Device Type, getting the counts per model type with an LSS device quantity Total - perhaps with a Capacity Total by model and summary.
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Future consideration

Increase the maximum number of independent filesets per filesystem

Currently we are hovering under 1000 independent file sets within the user file system. Even taking into account file sets that are removed when users leave site it is very possible that we will hit the limit within a year.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Missing WEB-client in ISP 8.1.2 and later

We updated one of out ISP-Servers (AIX) to Version 8.1.3 a few days ago. After having finished that I also updated one Windows Agent to BA-Version 8.1.2 (file Server). Everything is working fine except the fact, that the WEB-Client is no longer su...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration