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Adjust CSM panel scroll windows with Browser window size and support filters

There are a couple of panels in CSM GUI which do not adjust their scroll list window size to the browser window size. This results in small CSM scroll windows which may contain very long lists although there is plenty of white space in the browser...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

SVC 2145-DH8 Use IMM port for remote access/control

SVC Nodes are commonly installed in multiple Data Centers, not all Data Centers have a support personnel at all times, and in certain circumstances the SVC Nodes require physical access in order to Reboot the Nodes. Currently the IMM Port of the S...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management missing RHEL 8 support

Currently Spectrum Copy Data Management 2.2.13 does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Application archive logs included in copy operations

SPP can protect both databases and its archive logs. Those backups are stored on a vSnap, so the customer can restore both of them if they need. If the customer wants to run a copy operation of those backups to a Cloud Object Storage, for example,...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Need the ability to seed initial data from source vSnap to target replication vSnap

A customer has requested the ability to physically send a copy of data on external media from the source vSnap to the site that has the target replication vSnap for ingest rather than send the data over their network. They would like to do this to...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Update Cloudstoragepool to make it immutable.

Hello Currently S3 immutable and immutable COS is supported but its only with define stgpool but its not supported do update current stgpool to make it immutable. Since S3 allow changes now, can we please have an update stgpool with enabledatalock?
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Change the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server autoselect to select backups prior to the backup endtime, instead of the backups prior to the backup starttime

The LSN (Log Sequence Number) checkpoint is created when an SQL backup concludes. This can lead to the autoselect function in IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server, selecting a log backup between the Difffuls or Full backups start...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

A command is needed to manually drop the FilesToCache and StatCache of the Client node mounted with GPFS to release the tokens of the server

same as the topic
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Scale GUI Dashboard Nodes by Latency

Add the ability to "Cherry Pick" and display in the Scale GUI the top nodes by latency. This could be on the statistics widget or a new widget. Add the granularity of client nodes, NSD nodes, nodes by nodeclass XYZ, or custom picked nodes. Additio...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Scale GUI Statistics Save, Generate report, and Forward Selections

Provide the ability in the Scale GUI Statistics monitoring page to save custom settings for easy re-use and ability to forward these selections to the Dashboard page for use in a monitoring widget. There are pre-set statistics monitoring selection...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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