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Spectrum Protect Plus - Support of Oracle Database on Windows Server

Ability to backup Oracle databases (11gR2+) running on Windows servers.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SI to Include IBM DS8XXX Frames in an Inventory View

We would like to see a way in Storage Insights Pro to see an inventory list of all DS8 frames.Ideally I would like to see an Inventory table which lists out all frames for all the DS8 devices, but at a minimum we should have an Inventory tab withi...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Requests and limits for statefullset ibm-spectrum-scale-gui in Spectrum Scale container native shoud be configurable

Currently CPU request for gui pods is set to 500m. This request is too large for small clusters and pod typically use ~10m. This can prevent other workload to be sheduled and it's wastefull especially in small multicluster scenarios.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Prioritising tape replication by catagory/dataclass

Currently data replication is performed on a fifo algorithm so as soon as a tape is available and there is a spare replication thread the tape will start to replicate. We have a situation where we have batch jobs that use a tape category for large...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future 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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

select more than 20 nodes (VM's) per vCenter for Backup

In the vCenter plugin extension we can select only 20 VM's. If we select more, we will get an error, that only 20 are possible in one backup. In some cases (failed backups) we need to restart more than 20 VMs from the vCenter GUI.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Adding additional Global Preferences for Default Restore Job

Since Version 10.1.5, when doing a restore, you can choose between "default setup" and "advanced setup". For the user doing a restore, the default setup should automatically use the most common values. In our customers environment, this would for ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Update Cloudstoragepool to make it immutable.

Hello Currently S3 immutable and immutable COS is supported but its only with define stgpool but its not supported do update current stgpool to make it immutable. Since S3 allow changes now, can we please have an update stgpool with enabledatalock?
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Change the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server autoselect to select backups prior to the backup endtime, instead of the backups prior to the backup starttime

The LSN (Log Sequence Number) checkpoint is created when an SQL backup concludes. This can lead to the autoselect function in IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server, selecting a log backup between the Difffuls or Full backups start...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

A command is needed to manually drop the FilesToCache and StatCache of the Client node mounted with GPFS to release the tokens of the server

same as the topic
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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