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Storage Rule Exclude Function

Today when you create a Storage Rule Replication you can either assign all nodes or exclude all nodes and then create a subrule and include/exclude specific nodes. In our case do we have a 2 Sites solution where we replicate data between sites, th...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

fix column widths in dsmadmc interactive screen output

When using dsmadmc for SP management, the screen output quality looks often still like from previous century. Especcially number columns are often too narrow even when there is plenty of console width still available. This leads to wrapped numbers...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

IBM Storage Ceph alerting, reporting, and probe frequency

Alex manages the Kyndryl team that supports FedEx Ground, a very significant IBM i and FlashSystem and DSI client. We are implementing Ceph as Long Term archive backend for the DSI Virtual Tape Library and the Kyndryl team needs to be able to moni...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Enterprise Class Encryption at rest i n Spectrum Protect Plus

Please add an encryption at rest capability with KMIP integration for external key management systems such as IBM SKLM
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support SMB Persistent Handles

Hi, When trying to copy files using rsync via SMB shares exported by Spectrum Scale, we are experiencing errors after session disconnection\ces node failovers. currently, scale does not provide persistent\durable file handles. we are kindly asking...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Monitor Spectrum Archive components in mmhealth

Spectrum Archive is missing from mmhealty. Please add monitoring of services and sub-component status similar to tiering to cloud. Lots of library, drive, cartridge and task statuses are easily available from the eeadm command.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

SP Plus interface enhancement: vm search and selection

In the SP Plus interface, in the backup tab (/pages/hypervisor/vmware/backup) , while searching a VM to assign it to a particular SLA Policy, it would be nice to have a filter available to limit the scope of the search. First thing I think about i...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow SLA associations to survive the move of associated guests from one hypervisor to another

possibility to migrate VM's between different vCenter systems. In this case today SPP track this as a new VM, but it is not a new VM it's the same as before.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Security enhancement to the TS4500 CLI tool

I would like to request a security enhancement to the TS4500 CLI tool to support authentication credentials to be read from a file on disk of the workstation. Today, typical TS4500 CLI usage is something like this:# java -jar /opt/TS4500/TS4500CLI...
about 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 4 Future consideration

Update CopyOperator role in IBM Spectrum Virtualize

IBM SVC v8.2.1.9IBM CSM v6.2.8 >Trying to execute CSM FlashCopy sessions to SVC controllers and CSMSERVICE account needs 'Administrator' role access as the 'CopyOperator' privelidges are insufficent. > Unfortunately the 'CopyOperator' group ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

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