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More granularity for Retention Rule

To be able to choose directory(ies) in Retention Rule to have more flexibility. Most of the time, needs are to create a retention set on specific directory, not all the filespace.SP well know all the backed up directories and files from a node. Th...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

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

Encryption - tool to check health status of all configured encryption servers

When Encryption is configured on a file system. the key server must be available to allow user file access. When the key server fails, data access is lost. We need a tools that can be run to check key server health, check retrieval of keys, and co...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

TS7700 COPY ENTIRE POOL DATA TO NEW EMPTY POOL

We need to copy a pool to e new empty one by a simple fonction in TS7700 GUI
about 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Need SNMPv3 support in CSM

My customer is moving his monitoring tool to SNMPv3 and he would like to monitor CSM also with SNMPv3 so he's requesting CSM to support SNMPv3.
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Log server tcp port as well together with client ip/port in access log.

Today the server logs entries similar to the following: 03/03/22 09:02:58 ANR0406I Session 83331 started for node HOST.EXAMPLE.COM (Linux x86-64) (SSL host.example.com[dead:beef::1]:45186). (SESSION: 83331) However, there is no logging of which se...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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

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...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Enable support for signing kernel modules for the GPFS portability layer

We need a way to have GPFS client code to support signing the GPFS portability layer kernel modules so it is possible to run with secureboot enabled. In the FAQ it is listed to be disabled or handled manualy. We would request that the Spectrum Sca...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

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

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