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Test ISPP with Linux 8.5

For ISPP server we have currently Linux version of 7.X and Linux team is planning to upgrade to RedHat Linux version 8.5 and they cant go for 8.4 as it has security vulnerability Please advice correct version of ISPP which is compatible with for L...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Report power redundancy failure on a ESS Data Server or ESS Protocol Node

Currently, the GUI neither mmhealth report a power redundancy failure if power cord is unplugged or power is lost at one of the PSUs. The GUI uses ipmitool rvitals as an internal report were PSU appears as ok but PSU fan rpm are reduced. The GUI s...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Future consideration

SVC Easy Tier - Heat Map Transfer Request

Given that SVC is used for DR, and with 7.3.x Easy Tier allows 3 tiers, just like in the DS8K series, it is critical for customers to be able to have the Heat Map Transfer for the SVC to ensure efficient transition to a DR center during a disaster...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Protocols: Support a PAM configuration supporting winbindd and Active Directory, not local accounts only, on ces nodes.

Currently protocol nodes using Active Directory authentication don't support accounts from AD when you connect with ssh. The needed pam_winbind.so pam module is not provided by scale/protocols. Only local accounts work. Maintaining local admin acc...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Report visualizer inside Operations Center

The only way to visualize a report output is to send the report by email using the "Send" option. This is not practical when creating/modifying a report and you need to see the result quickly in order to make changes/corrections to the SQL. It wou...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management to leverage existing storage replication relationships

IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management for SAP/HANA environment
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Shorten the pending IO time to 5-30s during node expel

When node in ECE cluster was expelled from cluster, the IO pending time is long as 1-3 minutes. Some of applications failure due to long pending time,especial to OLTP or AI training jobs. Competitors which using traditional dual-controllers mode c...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

VM job reports

Spectrum Protect Plus reports don't meet our requirements.We can see if backups completed without any fails in the last 24 hour. Also VM SLA report can show us if VMs are in compliance. But it's not enough.There must be a report which shows if all...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SP PLUS support for SHAREPOINT witH SQL

Customer would like to have an application support for SHAREPOINT environemnt, backing up the VM with SP PLUS.SHAREPOINT is used with SQL 2017 database.Not yet with O365.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Include frame and drive S/Ns in system summary csv download

There is no single place to get the full list of S/Ns of frames AND drives for an installed library. The system summary csv file contains a lot of useful information including frames and drives, but not their S/Ns. This would be very helpful in ME...
5 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration