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Resources -> Pools panel displays 100 pools/page and not all the pools on 1 page.

We have more than 300 pools and it needs 4 pages to display all of them.
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SPP reporting for Daily, Monthly backup status

SPP reporting has currently some good reports but there is no report with clear Backup completion report.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Display more detailed information in the Storage Insights Ticket dashboard

SI is a great pan of glass to Monitor, Manage and track issue on storage environment.When using the Device Ticket Dashboard, user see only the ticket number ( RCMS, RETAIN , Salesforce) but detailed information are missing.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

LDAP - implement nested groups support

Enterprise environments that implement LDAP need to support LDAP nested groups.
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Servermon (Windows) is using cmd to archive servermon files, located in <instance_dir\srvmon

To protect our ISP Server environment on Windows against Ransomware attacks, we are using the program Blocky for TSM from Grau Data. We can whitelist all programs and applications to update the critical files in the filesysems, like db, log and in...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Access to AWS S3 buckets with object lock enabled via a VPC Endpoint

For security reasons we must access AWS S3 buckets via a VPC Endpoint. We also require that the S3 bucket has object lock enabled. We have set this up and tested it and it does not currently work. We are able to read/write to the S3 bucket via a V...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

For DRP show used_capacity_before_reduction in the GUI

When using DRP, Real and used capacity is not shown in the GUI. Used capacity is actuyally available from command line as "used_capacity_before_reduction". I suggest that this value is presented in the GUI for DRP volumes.
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Create customer-viewable "Storage Fusion IBM Service/Support Reference Guide"

The consensus of several IBM Storage Fusion HCI users and IBMers ( including Storage Fusion HCI HW Service Planning) is: A "Storage Fusion HCI / SW Support Reference Guide", similar to the external customer-facing IBM Elastic Storage Server Suppor...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Functionality already exists

Enable more than 1 LDAP server for authentication because it is a single point of failure

System: SPP server 10.1.8Feature: Currently the SPP server only allows for 1 LDAP server entry. This is a single point of failure. There is no redundancy, if that single LDAP server is down there is no way for the team to log-in, because we do not...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Storage Agent write to cloud container

Would be very useful to allow a storage agent to write directly to an on-prem or off-site cloud bucket. In larger environment this would help spread the load and improve backup performance. Then allow the Storage agent to read from on-prem S3 and ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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