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Allow Easytier to place data on any tier of storage

The customer would like to tell Easytier to place incoming data on any tier of storage, specifically in this case, tier 0. They pull in databases to their storage and want to quickly access them from Tier 0. This functionality is provided in compe...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Need qualification of Ganesha NFS with Spectrum Scale for FileNet customers

FileNet Content Manager uses NFS to access Spectrum Scale to score document content. Customers can run FileNet Content Manager in a traditional environment or in a containerized environment. In the Containerized environment, Kubernetes provides a ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

SNMPv3 support in GPFS GUI

Morgan Stanley is asking for upgrade to SNMPv3 (GPFS GUI alerts)
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Hyperswap: Choosing survival site

Need ability to specify site, that remain active in case of replication link is down (split brain).Customer strongly required to manually choose main site,
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management should not require Oracle "recover until snapshot" command when hot backup is not used

During Oracle recoveries SCDM, if hot backup is not used to create the backup, will use the Oracle "recover until snapshot" command which invokes the Oracle Advanced Compression Snapshot Optimization license. This is expensive. Alternatively, ther...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Complete list of client instrumentation categories

According manual "IBM Spectrum Protect Version 8.1.0 / Optimizing Performance" administrators can collect and analyse data for client performance problems. The table of client instrumentation categories that are tracked/timed is not complete (e.g....
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

DEACTIVATE DATA to include FILESPACE and FSID

DEACTIVATE DATA should allow a FILESPACE or FSID to allow purging only specific filespaces by date.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

connect to DB2 directly due to more complex SQL queries

We have the requirement to connect to DB2 directly due to more complex SQL queries (readonly, so only select) and have some questions: - If we run a pod with our Python code in the Spectrum Discover namespace in OpenShift can we add the secret "db...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 4 Not under consideration

ESS to support AD integration

ESS does not currently support joining AD in order to perform user authentication. ESS should support AD instead of, or in addition to, local authentication.
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

dsmc -filelist quotes and control characters

There are constraints that prevents BA client from processing files: they may not contain quotes and apostrophes; thay may not contain control characters either.IBM should come up with escape and quoting rules that could allow BA client to process...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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