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support pools of varying block sizes in a single filesystem (as well as > 32 subblocks)

Support differing block sizes for different pools within a given filesystem (allowing for >32 subblocks on new pools created within existing filesystems created prior to scale 5.0).
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Increase SMB Share Limit in Scale Cluster

The current Limitations for Spectrum Scale SMB are listed as follows: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_5.0.5/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r05.doc/bl1ins_smbclients.htm "Spectrum Scale can host a maximum of 1000 SMB shares" needs t...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Create alerting's for any of the CPU core

Alerting on one CPU core % utilization can be very useful to detect possible issues the system As SpecV device can have up to 32 CPU core this means that user need to select and configure one alert for each of the core. As the threshold will be th...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

CSM API token generation without a user ID & password

Using CSM API, we are planning to manage our recovery procedures. But the major roadblock is password generation for CSM. Because of audit concerns we cannot have a static password for a ID. So, because of this, we are unable to make the procedure...
about 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Reusedelay-like option in Spectrum Protect Plus, similar to the option in Spectrum Protect

A reconciliation option between vSnap contents and SPP catalog, in the event that an SPP catalog restore is needed, so that at least some backup recoveries can be facilitated from those snaps missing meta data.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Global Copy pacing

We would like to be able to pace Global Copy so that we can make sure it does not cause any performance degradation on target DS8. So far, only a poke is available, not manageable from client. Suggestion is: a setting, editable through DSCLI, whic...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

Enable text based output from Rest API

Rest API query for license usage comes out as pdf, excel or html. These are not well suited to import to other systems for automation. I would like the output as text, like csv file.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Future consideration

.NVRAM and vTPM restore needed with DP for VE VMware

Restore of a VMware guest does not include .NVRAM and vTPM. VMware points out, that backup software should take care of backup and restore of these two objects.https://vdc-repo.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/8f96698a-0e7b-4d67-bb6c-d18a1d10...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

Provide a configurable session timeout for the TSSC web management interface.

Security standards are further restricting the timeout of sessions for admin interfaces. Reduces risk.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

More control options for a running restore without having to abort it. (dynamically change timeout value, ...)

Spectrum Protect has several time out values to detect „sick, but not dead“ situations and for a good reason actively terminates sessions when specified time out value has been reached.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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