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    Do not trigger a new base backup if the site associated with the SLA policy is changed

    Currently if you alter the target site in an SLA policy it will trigger a new base backup. This behaviour should be adjusted so that by default it does not trigger a new base backup.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Enable a user to change the time zone within browser view of metrics

    When I view performance metrics for a given Storage Virtualize (StorV) cluster SI renders time based on browser time zone setting. My investigation of performance issues would more efficient If I could change the time zone to match the time zone o...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    TS7700 and TSSC to support NTP server configuration using FQDN name instead of IP

    The NTP server IP may change in the background, requiring updates to the VTS NTP configuration. Allowing the use of an FQDN (Fully qualified domain name) for NTP server configuration would help maintain consistent time synchronization for TS7700 a...
    3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

    Expand TPI to more actions

    With the new TPI feature it is not possible to delete safeguarded snapshots. We would very much like the feature expanded to include operations such as deleting regular datastores in an attempt to prevent ransomware attacks. And before you say "ju...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Improve CLI security

    Today (TS4500 release 1.8.x.x), role permissions modified with the CLI are only honored by Web UI users. CLI users do not honor the modified permissions, only the standard permissions inherited by the original role are applied.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Monitoring quota usage per fileset (not inodes, capacity usage)

    Hi team, we found a gap in quota monitoring of spectrum scale filesets, we have the capability to monitor inode usage per-fileset, but not quota consumption in terms of capacity. Becasuse of that we urgently need a feature that could alert us when...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

    Document required "sudo" permissions

    The requirement for a single file recovery within Spectrum Protect Plus is to implement a sudo-configuration on each protected VM to assign:sppagent ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:ALL
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Data collector incorporate in DS8K

    Similar to CSM, Storage Insight Data collector can be built in the DS8K HMC by default for customer. This will allow the customer to easily consume the Storage Insight Service. This will increase Storage Insight usage and that will benefit the fut...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Protocols - S3: subnet restrictions in S3 bucket policies

    One of our ESS clusters stores highly sensitive data for around two thousand projects that needs to be kept strictly separate between projects, so we neeed the possibility to add subnet-requirements to buckets for proper data separation, like we c...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Provide a xattr namespace for xattrs that should disappear once file changes

    It would be useful to be able to set xattrs on files that get invalidated once the file changes. F.ex. we could set a user.valid.backup attribute to indicate that the file has been backed up, and a user.valid.checksum to store a checksum of the fi...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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