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Tag/Label backup sessions as well as backup/archive records.

Because of the Spectrum Protect way to register the backups/archive, it is challenging to track the backups.  For example, when customers lunch a multi-thread backup (DB, Files, Mail, VM), it is difficult to identify what kind of backup it is...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

Improve ACL management in Spectrum Scale

Currently, ACL management in Scale is overly difficult. For instance, the mmputacl command requires the entire ACL to be reapplied, rather than just having the ability to add, delete, or modify existing entries. Additionally, inheritance does not ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Add alert condition with " Normal status"

I would like to create an alert that trigger for example when the host connection is <=1, but this alert should not trigger when customer is performing a code upgrade or rebooting a node , this is the reason I need a condition that that say Nod...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Graceful failure of AFM recall timeouts when using AFM-NSD + Support for offline file awareness with AFM (related issues)

Any client using AFM-NSD Caching with a home storage repository that uses DMAPI aware Hierarchical Storage Management is at risk. AFM-NSD has no ability to gracefully respond when an AFM Cache requst to a recall filesfrom home times out. AFM-NFS u...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

KMPI v2 protocoll support for TS4300

Our TS4300 Tape Library for LTO supports 2 ext. key managers for tape encryption: the IBM GKLM (before SKLM) and 3rd party key managers with KMIP communication. The supported KMIP protocoll version is v1.2. Unfortunately this protocoll version is ...
almost 3 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 0 Future consideration

Support for EMC PowerMax storage systems

Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series storage systems.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Data Retention - restrict interaction with node data to node user

We use Spectrum Protect whit Data Retention enabled to store archive data.nobody besides the application should be able to delete single files that are stored in spectrum protect. We work with event based retention. If the event is set from the ap...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

default custom ID required on Spectrum Protect Server Install

Currently a new built of TSM server 8.1 does not create the "admin/admin" ID like it was done with 5.5 versions. THis creates a problem with build automation where it requires a extra step to register a ID adding to build time.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Remote Support Disconnect button

In the Support Assistance screen on FlashSystem our customer would like to have a disconnect button. We understand we can do this with the command line but the customer feels a button to disconnect in the GUI would be more helpful. On a call with ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

add support for PowerHA AIX cluster configuration for File system backup and restore

DCU (Customer) did a CDM snapshot across the 2 AIX servers. Then a situation came up where they had a need to do a restore and it failed with the exception “com.catalogic.ecx.ibmsvcprovider.exception.IBMSVCExecCommandException: CMMVC9071E: Cannot ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

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