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    Pct Util calculation needs to either show more decimal places, or otherwise somehow scale based on larger possible volume sizes

    Regarding case TS012335757, due to the large size of the volumes, Pct Util was showing 0.0, but there was actually data stored there. This led to confusion over why the volumes were not returning to scratch. As an example, 2.5GB on a 1TB tape show...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Multifactor Authentication (MFA) support for RSA SecurID

    Many large, heavily regulated enterprises require multifactor authentication (MFA) on mission critical technology assets. One of the most popular on-prem MFA solutions is RSA SercurID. RSA is supported on the IBM enterprise DS8k storage product, i...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Enhance REST API Export a log file with keyword: latest

    it would be useful to extend the GET /v1/logs/<filename>/export command so that you could enter a 'latest'-Tag as filename for example and then the ‘most recent - completed’ log is exported. GET /v1/logs/latest/export -> Exports the most ...
    11 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Monitoring and Alerting Local Filesystems Usage in Advance for IBM 9500 Nodes

    Recently due to Node error 565 "Node internal disk is failing" due to /dumps full getting we discovered the impact where the nodes to be rebooted due to nodes reported in service state.. panel_name cluster_id cluster_name node_id node_name relatio...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

    Configure TSM4VE without SP Admin Access

    IBM Storage Protect is a popular Service Provider product and it is possible to buy backup functionality using IBM Storage Protect as a backup engine. But all of them is created to only run old legacy backup like installing client in the operating...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Ability to export support logs out of OperationsCenter GUI

    In case of problems with the ISP environment it is needed to open a problem ticket and provide various log files from the ISP server. If the Operations Center is used it should be able to extract the logfiles out of the Operations Center. (e.g. ac...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Delete Backups in Vsnap repository

    SPP 10.1.1 allows expiration of specific recovery points... But that's expiring all the VMs included in that recovery point within the SLA. It still do not have the ability to expire individual VMs within a policy...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Allow wildcard patterns for node names in tiering rules

    Support the usage of wildcard pattern for node names in storage tiering rules.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    extend number of independent filesets

    For a file system used in a large research facility with a capacity beyond 20 PB, we would like to generate at least 5000 independent filesets for projects being active in processing and generating data. We expect initially a demand for 5000 indep...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Capability to generate a "application consistent" snapshot on a secondary when replicating data with new policy-based async replication

    Scenario is quite simple: client wants to generate an "application consistent" snapshot on his secondary site while data are replicated using new policy-based replication. To do so client will freeze I/O on primary site once application is in a co...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

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