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audit container markdamaged needs to update inventory objects as damaged

Any process that marks extents damaged should queue a process to mark those objects damaged which rely on the extents. AUDIT CONTAINER ACTION=MARKDAMAGED only marks extents damaged, so inventory objects stay not-damaged. Even later, if they are ac...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Provide IP filtering capability for the DS8000 platform

Provide IP filtering capability (or an allow list) that would allow customer inbound access to the DSGUI, DSCLI and WUI (HMC) for a list of configurable IP addresses (IPv4 or IPv6 format) or DNS names and explicitly deny everything else. The IP fi...
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Detection of unbalanced metrics for spectrum virtualize machine

example 1In spectrum virtualize family , IO group is made of two nodes.Usually the metrics of those two nodes should be about similar, if two nodes (of the same IO group) are showing very different value for same metric this may be the sign for a ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Redesign DELETE FILESPACE for reduced log pinning and active log utilization

DELETE FILESPACE pins the DB2 active log st the start, and considers the entire deletion one transaction. This is not how ingested data is handled. Because of this disparity, it is possible to receive a large object, such as an NDMP backup, which ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

SPP ram requirements

Spectrum Protect Plus has 2 main components; SPP appliance (management) and vSnap.They both has high amount of RAM requirement.We are having issues when explaining this requirement to our customers as MSP. Because as the amount of data grows, the ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Extend valid settings for option "etfcmoverallocationmax" on mk|chmdiskgrp commands and its applicability in general.

Currently the option "etfcmoverallocationmax" offers four valid settings "100,200,300,400" to set the maximum over-allocation which Easy Tier can migrate onto FCM arrays, when the array is used as the top tier in a multi-tier pool. It currently wo...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Support adding space by extending existing luns to vSnap server

vSnap server should be able to have it storage luns extended. Typically, we would make 4 luns of 4 Tb each available to a vSnap server. When it needs to be extended, we just increase the existing luns by 1 or 2 Tb each.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Report FE capacity for DB2 databases in OC

We want to see the "Capacity Used" values for DB2 databases in the "License Estimation" of the Spectrum Protect Operation Center.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

NDMP - NAS backups - Encrypted communications with TLS 1.2/3

Required to secure communications in line with all other client server operations
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Enhance Spectrum Protect CMS feature

Starting 8.1.13 baclient / OC version, CMS is integrated with the baclient code. Right now, only part of the relevant baclient logs for investigations are being reported. It could be very helpful for “remote” diagnostics that the CMS is able to gr...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration