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    Add Spectrum Scale with SSH key in Spectrum Control

    Currently Spectrum Scale can be added only with password authorization. Requet is to implement SSH key authorization. Once user password is changed in Spectrum Scale , we lose collecting data until password is changed in Spectrum Control according...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Planned for future release

    Proactive/Predictive Alerting or Analysis Before a Port goes Bad

    Wondering if there could be some proactive alerting or analysis in storage insights based on different metrics that are collected for all the ports(FICON, FCP, ZHL) to predict a port going bad before it actually does go bad on DS8K. Currently, the...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    speed up PROTECT STGPOOL to local tape

    The PROTECT STGPOOL to local tape is way too slow. In a sample environment with quite powerful hardware we only achieve around 200 GB/hour of througput with PROTECT STGPOOL while on the same server BACKUP STGPOOL from other non-container pools run...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Support remote pair flashcopy on Global Mirror Primary devices.

    Currently we have a GDPS Metro Mirror environment that is being expanded with LCP in a Metro Physical Airgap solution.So we have PPRC Metro Mirror between RS1 -> RS2 and Global Mirror between RS2 -> RS3. In our GDPS Metro Mirror environment ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Storage Protect client and possibly server Linux on ARM (ampere computing)

    We are evaluation running more workloads on ampere computing (containers but also std vms)I would like to use storage protect client for backup/archiving as step1 and also interested in the serverside if We cant run AIX or Linux on power then the ...
    12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    Need better job and resource management feature to avoid multiple simultaneous job start upon SPP restart after unexpected outage

    The current IBM Storage Protect Plus design makes that, upon appliance restart after an unexpected outage, all pending jobs are started simultaneously. This can overwhelm the appliance available resouces if numerous jobs are pending. As an example...
    12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

    TS7700 Multiple NTP Server Addresses for Redundancy

    This would be a robust configuration if the TS7700 MI can allow multiple entries for NTP time servers (just like the DS8950 MI), and/or allow LTM/GTM IP addresses and have one IP address that goes on a round robin of available NTP servers in the p...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    SMB transparent failover

    The current design only support NFS transparent failover and SMB is not. Without SMB transparent failover, end user need to interactive with failover session. Customer hope to support CIFS session reconnect automatically during CES FO/FB. This can...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Globally switch on /off client instrumentation trace in Server Node definition or Client Option Set

    due to the fact of several security vulnerabilities (CVE-2016-8916) we need the ability to switch the new default value enableinstrumentation from on to off globally. This can ether be done with a client option in the client option set or throug a...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    SP EXCHANGE: FUNCTION TO OPEN/BROWSE ANY .EDB FILE AND EXTRAC ITS CONTENT INTO PST FILES WITHOUT EXCHANGE/API MMC(GUI)

    Develop a function to allow Spectrum Protect for Mail MS- Exchange to read raw .EDB files without interaction with Exchange/API and browse the database content to extract all the mailboxes into PST files simultaneously.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

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