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Display of Servers --> Maintenance tasks history improvement

Tasks which run into the next day are shown in the history as running and not finished. The history seems to only check the job in one day. It should check the process id for the finished or aborted status. Also it would be helpful to see the dura...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Allow the ability to stop a FlashCopy session (Storage Virtualize Family)

When managing FlashCopy sessions (not volume group based) from CSM, the only available commands for any given FC session are: Discover Start Flash Restore Terminate surprisingly, the ability of stopping a session is missing. You can terminate it, ...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

Increase logical tape drives per cluster to more than 496

TS7700s get more robust with each generation released allowing for more systems to share the high-bandwidth I/O and storage capacity but the logical tape drives have not increased, making it difficult to assign sufficient tape units to each sharin...
9 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Future consideration

Commands in FS7200 CLI needs more verbosity levels

In troubleshooting connections and logins, ie inside DNS, LDAP, Proxy, Call Home tests then cli does not give enough information. All the time snaps are needed and then look into those to troubleshoot.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Delete Backups in Vsnap repository

SPP 10.1.1 allows expiration of specific recovery points... But that's expiring all the VMs included in that recovery point within the SLA. It still do not have the ability to expire individual VMs within a policy...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

mmrestripefs % complete metric is near useless

Current behavior------------------mmrestripefs (and mmdeldisk) displays a % complete metric while it is going. Unforunately, this seems to be tracking the % of the inode of the whole filesystem that it is currently working on. Deficiency of this--...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Requirements and design to deal with 10 billion of indexed files

Spectrum Discover with Spectrum Protect Customer wants to build a spectrum discover environment which handles up to 12 billion indexed files we are testing Spectrum Discover with 02 Spectrum Protect servers as data sources. Only these two server r...
about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

Enhance RESTful API to include configuration information missing in the existing offering

We need to be able to extract the following settings via RESTful API. SSL/TLS Session Timeout Endpoint Identification on LDAP connections SP800-131a Compliance HTTP/HTTPs for Web Dual Control (in R5.4) LDAP Primary Server URL LDAP Alternate Server...
9 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus - Introduce new Replication Only SLA

System: Spectrum Protect PlusActor: User needing new feature Spectrum Protect Plus is a Backup and Data reuse product that allows for easy protection of virtual workloads and replication to alternate locations. However, although replication is sup...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enhanced possiblities for defining password policy in SPP

SPP does only allow to configure a minimum password length within the Global Preferences. Setting further options like: - minimum number of upper case characters- minimum number of lower case characters- minimum number of special characters- minim...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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