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IP Quorum allow a chance to increase logging size 2. why is the application based on outdated java runtime

1. Customer would like a way to increase the size of logging for the ip quorum application for troubleshooting .2. why is this application based on an older java runtime .
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

backup stgpool parallelization

I would request to have backup stgpool of a source pool of type=disk parallelized either on a per volume base (as backup stgpool acts if the source pool is of type=file) or on the amount of data to process. When running backup stgpool with a sourc...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add debug kernel support to GPFS

Hi I was trying to start gpfs on a debug rhel kernel for kmemleak debugging It failed due to being unsupported. Can this support be added in future GPFS versios?
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Domnode support for new Webclient GUI

The old webclient supported option domnode to be able to restore/activate Domino databases without logging into the target machine (help deskmodel). The domnode functionality is missing in the new security enabled Webclient (WEBGUI).
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Method for monitoring/alerting on performance of cache to S3 data movement

There is currently no method to monitor the migration of local cache storage to S3 object storage. There is therefore no easy way to know if data are being moved and if they are moving sufficiently quickly to be completed before the next backup. I...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

IBM SPP to allow MS-SQL Restore to Standby State

Customer would like to have the ability to restore MS-SQL database to the Standby state.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

PKIX Validation.

When replacing the IBM Spectrum Protect Instance Self-signed certificate, with a CA signed certificate, the client to server or server to server validation of the CA signed certificate expects that the OID in the certificate chain must be an exact...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Provide SPP report download in .csv format

Customer would like to be able to download reports from SPP in .csv format.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Consider automatic column width in tables based on actual data

When a tabular data is first viewed within Spectrum Control, Sometimes the column is much too narrow to display the actual data and sometimes many columns are too narrow and time must be invested adjusting the column widths to make the data readab...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

Remove -force option from stopsystem command when issued via the GUI (or make it optional)

When using the GUI (node actions -> power off) to power off a specific SVC node (eg a hardware repair action) the -force option is used in the command svctask stopsystem -force -gui -node x This bypasses the checks for volumes going offline or ...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

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