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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.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Retain last X backups beyond date based expiration

Retain a configurable amount of backups beyond date based retention, requiring administrator action to delete.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Export node on container pools

The ability to export node data when using container pools
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Fix BKI6243E error for HANA with SSL enforced

TSM to work with sslEnforce = True parameter on SAP HANA database
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

SafeGuarded backup allocation using a pool concept

Customer is running Safe Guarded backups for a month (31 days) worth of backups on a daily schedule. They have around 3500 volumes. Many of these are involved in DB2 and ADBAS databses. These database volumes (as well as some system volumes) under...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Backup vCLS VMs

Exclude vCLS VMs from VM backups using TDP for VMware. Is not possible exclude VMs from backup using TAG, when VM is backed up using Schedule-Tag option.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Lucene DB maintenance option

I require an option within Spectrum Protect Plus that that will given me the ability to either reset the Lucene db (like drop the entire DB) or remove file indexing entries older than x days) This would give me the flexibilty to better control wha...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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

Spectrum Protect (TSM) client for Linux on System z has no GUI client since 8.1.2 release

The IBM Spectrum Protect client for System z no longer has a means to access a newer release (8.1.2 or newer) server due to so called improvements in security between clients and server. Previously, clients were able to communicate with the server...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 6 Future consideration

Support Windows 2019 on the SP B/A client

More and more customers are asking about when we will support Windows Server 2019 to be able to install the B/A client.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

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