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SPP: be able to rename SLA

SPP: Please allow for renaming SLA.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP Updated Reporting

Currently the reporting in Spectrum Protect Plus needs a bit of work. Couple of requests i would like to make.1. The ability to have all sizes in the same format. IE everything in bytes, MB,GB,TB etc.The reason for this is then the ability to sort...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Units of Measurements in Storage Data to be displayed in Base 10

It would be greatly helpful for the Resource Unit Billing teams and IBM user group to see the option of selecting the Storage Metrics display using Base 10, in addition to Base 2 that currently exist.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Future consideration

Dual LCC option for single frame libraries

In a single frame configuration there is no redundancy for the library control card. This is a single point of failure and can cause lengthy outages. Dual LCC option would eliminate this.
over 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

« Key Management Interoperability Protocol » (KMIP) support

We would like the IBM TS4500 library to support the KMIP protocol in order to use a different encryption key manager than the IBM SGKLM software
5 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

IBM support ideas for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 for 2023 for TS7700 and TS4500

This would benefit Wells Fargo for the most updated security.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

CES Group failover, within the locality, when using a stretched cluster

Client in a active-active Spectrum Scale stretched cluster using protocol nodes. They have 6 protocol nodes in total. Nowadays, in case of 1 node failure, the CES IP can be failover to any nodes, either in the same site or to the remote site. This...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

1500 character limit for SQL statements in dsmadmc

Currently there is a limit that commands im dsmadmc can't be longer than 1500 characters else error ANS8028E will be raised.For most commands this limit is fine but for Spectrum Protect server scripts with complex SQL statements this is a real str...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 50 Future consideration

Improvement to Distributed Lock Manager (DLM) for shared files.

Request for an improved DLM mechanism when leveraging a scale out protocole node approach to better handle Locking broadcasting overhead for "shared to all" files and folder.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Increase the DS8000 TCT throughput per dataset

Customer is using DS8K TCT with HSM in mainframe to have a 3rd copy of data in the IBM Cloud (COS).They are using 3 DS8K boxes and the total throughput they can achieve is not enough to send the data generated in the last 24h every day.The limitat...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release