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AFM-COS configuration option for proxy servers

At the moment you cannot configure AFM-COS to use an explizit http(s) proxy server to connect to an external S3 storage.Please also add proxy support to AFM-COS as it is already available for the TCT or call home features.
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Inbound replication should report statistics into the summary table

Currently statistics for data ingested using replication (classic, stgrule or protect stgpool) is not completely reported to the summary table, the bytes value is always 0. This makes it difficult to run reports or monitor load on a server that ha...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add Storage Class Attribute to Data Pushed to S3

When pushing data to S3 via the Cloudgateway service it would be helpful to be able to specify the storage class. If you don't specify the storage class the data will be stored in S3 Standard. You can create a Lifecycle policy to push the data to ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Backing up data to Replication Spectrum protect server when Production TSM server id down for many days.

When the production Spectrum Protect server is down or having Disaster scenario, SP admins should go through tiresome steps to backup the data to replication SP Server. For each client, we will need to below steps for customers having 4000+ client...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Creation of the O365 account automatically from SPP

When configuring backup of O365 the account and all required permissions shall be automatically applied from SPP
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add command that will display the eta for the full process to bring a drive back into use after its replacement.

In certain cases, you'd like to know the full time all work related to the replacement of a drive will take. For example, we had a major issue, with multiple hw components needing to be replaced. I can't replace the next one, until this drive work...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

SpVirt GUI: option to set the refresh period of webpages

gui : option to set the refresh period of webpages, as it is automatic now and rather short.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Is a defect

Spectrum Scale maintenance integration with RHEL "yum"

when patching is performed on RHEL (with yum update), binaries that match the kernel must be available concurrently from an IBM public REPO site.1) Patching of RHEL cannot cause a mismatch of the binaries between RHEL and Scale, 2) compilers canno...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Need to add the functionality for VM multi-writer enabled disks backup. (Object. CBT-enabled VM having multi-writer disk(s))

Hello Team, We configured few VM backup In IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and those are getting failed due to multi-writer enabled on their disks. too resolve this issue, we raised a case (case # TS008530431). We get an update that in case is there is ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

node canister replacement fix procedure

The Run fix to replace the canister is missing a step.It doesn't run the "satask chbootdrive -replacecanister" under the covers or mention that the command needs to be run on the replacement node. The instructions are in the Knowledge Center but w...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

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