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    Add the ability to track licensing of SCU and TiB in Storage Insights

    With the move to adopt SI and eliminate the need for an on-prem Spectrum Control instance, one area that we cannot track in SI is Licensing. Today in Control we can list out all 4 tiers and usage of SCU and TiB. This report is useful for yearly su...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    SP move data out of CLOUD containers

    Once TSM/SP data ends up in a CLOUD pool, there is no way to every move it anywhere else. We should be able to move data out of a cloud pool. MOVE NODADATA might be relevant, but would only work if you could specify source and destination pools. T...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Include WWNN as a property for DS8000 Storage Systems for the purpose of building PPRC Scripts

    Storage Insights is so useful to pull data for the purpose of building PPRC scripts; however, when defining PPRC Paths, the WWNN of the remote DS8000 is required in the command. The WWNN can be retrived by issuing either of these DSCLI commands: l...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

    Automatic expand of a safeguarded copy child pool when it reaches the set threshold

    If a child pool fills to maximum the copies contained in the pool would go offline. it would be useful if we could set auto expand to the pool that could grow in increments, therefore lowing the risk of loosing immutable copies. This would be usef...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Allow a single SPP server instance to backup/restore more than 2 billion files

    This RFE is to remove the current limitation of ~2 billion files to be indexed for backup and restore operations on a single SPP server.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    Allow SP Plus backups to Spectrum Protect server w/o requiring a backup to the vSnap storage first

    A backup to Spectrum Protect is not possible w/o doing first a backup to a vSnap. The dependency on vSnap should be removed to allow leveraging the Spectrum Protect server storage hierarchy.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    GPU operator automation - enhancement

    There are currently plans to automate the implementation of the GPU operator installation on detection of a specified GPU node. the operator automation process needs to completely deploy all the configuration of the Nvidia Operator including being...
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    I would like VGS to be added to SPS

    Goodday As part of our Oracle in a SAP environment landscape we do bi-weekly refreshes of PROD onto a QA system. We also get ad-hoc requests for other clones as well as clones for Projects that means we need to keep a snapshot around for 6-12 mont...
    almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    A function is required for directory container pools to balance the fill level of multiple storage pool directories

    A function is required for directory container pools to balance the fill level of multiple storage pool directories, especially when an additional storagepool directory is added.Otherwise the Move Container scripts must be generated and started dy...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Spectrum Protect Plus: Improvement suggestion for the Restore-OpenShift function "Restore to alternate cluster"

    System: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Server Spectrum Protect Plus is used to secure the various OpenShift clusters. In the event of a disaster recovery, it is a common scenario that the saved status of the defective cluster has to be transferred to a...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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