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Disable NFS export

When having maintenance on larger file systems, it's advisable to first do a clean shutdown, and then enable maintenance mode with mmchfs --maintenance-mode to avoid anyone mounting or processes messing with the file system. This is quite problema...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SPP GUI integrated in SP OC

if SPP Vsnap will have a direct integration with SP, GUIs should also be integrated. This integration could be show as only one product with different features.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

The object storage of DS8000 TCT output can be used for FlashCopy target

In Japan z/OS market, DFSMShsm gets only 10% shares, so DS8000 Transparent Cloud Tiering will not be considered. My customer hopes to utilize DS8k TCT function just like as FlashCopy or Concurrent Copy via DFSMSdss Copy command . Restoring from ob...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Add SAML support

At the present time, SAML does not seems to be supported, only LDAP.
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Make CSI upgrade easier for disconnected clusters

At the present time when you want to upgrade spectrum scale's CSI there's no clear documentation: I go to the target version section and then to the 'upgrade' part. But there's nothing written for a disconnected cluster and for RHEL servers. To ha...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Security enhancement to the TS4500 CLI tool

I would like to request a security enhancement to the TS4500 CLI tool to support authentication credentials to be read from a file on disk of the workstation. Today, typical TS4500 CLI usage is something like this:# java -jar /opt/TS4500/TS4500CLI...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists

SP for VE: Remove or increase 8TB size VMware virtual machine disks limit

To be able to protect large VMware vmdk files using Spectrum Protect fot Virtual Environments, can the limit on vmmaxvirtualdisks option be increased or removed?
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

More flexibility in assigning rights to administrators

In large/complex environments with multiple people having administrative access to the Spectrum Protect server, it is desirable to be able to have better granularity on the rights assigned to each person/login or group. This is in order to be able...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

XS & XXS blueprint confguration for ISP

One of our customer is planning to migrate his ISP (8.1.16) to a new HW with latest ISP version. Customer's existing setup is quite small & was implemented as per blueprint guidelines. His current Db size is 110GB with container pools size of ...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Spectrum Protect Plus - bring greater visibility on data and metadata if both do not match

TS003754429It was recommended for a RFE to be opened to give greater visibility into what is on the vSNAPs matches what is in the SPP database/catalog.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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