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    Satellite CoreOS images deployment

    Make it possible via automation scripts in Fusion GUI to deploy also Core OS satellite Images, today only RHEL 7 and RHEL 8 is possible.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 4 Not under consideration

    Provide a command to set the "replace"-flag to disks in missing state, so a callhome is triggered.

    Disks in state "missing/drained" are not treated as replaceable disks by design, and so they do not trigger a call home. But because many of these disks are indeed broken, it would be useful if the administrator could run a command or use a GUI bu...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

    Make IP Quorum App run as a service by default when it's installed.

    Today the IP Quorum App is not installed as a service in the Operating Systems, so when the host where it resides is rebooted the client has to manually start the IP Quorum app again. If this is made as a service automatically during the install t...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Support TDP for MSSQl running on Linux

    MS is now supporting MS-SQL running on Linux. It would be nice to do a backup of that too.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Future consideration

    Spectrum Snapshot support for IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption on DB2 databases

    Spectrum Snapshot is NOT supported on DB2 databases when IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption has encrypted the database
    about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

    VM job reports

    Spectrum Protect Plus reports don't meet our requirements.We can see if backups completed without any fails in the last 24 hour. Also VM SLA report can show us if VMs are in compliance. But it's not enough.There must be a report which shows if all...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Spectrum Scale Management API does not distinguish between NFSv4 and POSIX ACLs

    When using the GET ACL request https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_5.0.3/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r03.doc/bl1adm_apiv2getfilesystemacl.htm It _always_ reports the ACL is of the NFSv4 type, even if the ACL is POSIX This is false i...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Enforce stricter controls for config changes/limits on VTS TS7700 Hardware

    The IBM TS7700 hardware allows changes in the configuration/limits which could lead to a complete lockdown on the front-end, e.g. when increasing the premigration queue far above the PMTHLVL. This status, in particular, cannot be changed nor the q...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Add IP port utilization to Storage Insights

    Currently we can only monitor FC port utilization using SI so we're completely blind when it comes to ISCSI port utilization and need to contact our network team to monitor usage which delays incident resolution. It would be great to be able to mo...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    GPFS Client/Server Capable of AIX Live Update Function

    Enhance GPFS code base to allow for a AIX 7.2 GPFS Client/Server to be capable of the AIX Live Update Function.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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