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Ability to export support logs out of OperationsCenter GUI

In case of problems with the ISP environment it is needed to open a problem ticket and provide various log files from the ISP server. If the Operations Center is used it should be able to extract the logfiles out of the Operations Center. (e.g. ac...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Convert a root fileset to an independent fileset

With AFM working only with independent filesets and not with root fileset, a customer that is hosting some data that needs to be replicated on its root fileset and that needs to transition to AFM will need to migrate (copy/move) all the data on th...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Support COHESITY SmartFiles S3 Object Lock for IBM Storage Protect Container Storage Pools

It is a major Storage Protect customer request. This customer has a project to integrate COHESITY SmartFiles and wants to use it to host immutable backups. It should work as it is the case with Storage Protect on AWS Object Lock today.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support for MS Sharepoint

Support for the protect of Microsoft Sharepoint environments on-premis. File-level recovery.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Show Buffer-Credit configured per Switch-Port

Provide a column on the switch port page with the configured buffer credits. This would help to prove a virtualize configuration or to identify a possible congerstion source.
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Needs more information

Multi-namespace Crash Consistency / Consistency Groups

Today, Consistency Groups as supported with Scale/GDP ensure that all Pods in a single namespace can be snapshotted in a crash-consistent way. A financial services customer is asking for consistent snapshots spanning PV/PVCs in separate namespaces.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Improve data collector health status indicators, and alert about data collector health issues.

In Storage Insights, problems exist where the workload balancing algorithm moves all workload to one data collector, because the other data collectors get into a state where they are “alive” enough to respond to the heartbeat, but not alive enough...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Allow multiple or all SQL DBs selection in adhoc backup

Customer is requesting the ability to choose multiple DBs or all DBs for SQL Protection when running an adhoc backup via the SPP UI.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Snapshot - Support with HyperSwap Volumes

Hi Team I have a customer who is looking for support for FlashCopy Manager (Spectrum Protect Snapshot) with HyperSwap volumes. From the link below I see that it is not currently supported:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21455924 T...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

CONVERT STGPOOL should have an option to convert only data for a node or node group

Spectrum Protect CONVERT STGPOOL should have an option which allows the user to specify that data for only a node or node group be converted into container pool storage WITHOUT setting the entire pool to a readonly-state. The process of conversion...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration