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Consistency between Disk # and Drive letter when using TAG INCLUDE:N or EXCLUDE:N

spectrum protect TAGS to include or exclude disk from tdp4ve backup are not consitent over time
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

SET FILESPACEATRISKINTERVAL

Requesting a new command, and related alerting/monitoring and opcenter handling. SET FILESPACEATRISKINTERVAL node_name filespace,filespace,filespace [NAMEType=FSID|SERVER|UNICODE] TYPE=[DEFAULT|BYPASSED|CUSTOM] Interval=value
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

SI "Get support" doesn't display address of hardware requiring service

When opening a hardware ticket in SI, the address tied to the serial number is not displayed,
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

Update OpenSSH in the SpecV / FlashSystem firmware to allow the sftp protocol instead of scp

Our managment servers are based on RHEL. Which will be upgraded to RHEL9 soon. With RHEL9 the standard scp is depreciated.. (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/openssh-scp-deprecation-rhel-9-what-you-need-know) With updating the openssh version within...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add read MB/s metric for Vc and Vcc

The original IDEA/RFE was this one "Add support for stage/destage metrics in MB/s" https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SSI-I-51 Destage metrics were added (Fast-Write Writes Vc and Vcc), but stage/read MB/s metrics were not added for Vc an...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale support for routing over infiniband fabrics

The current implementation of Spectrum Scale Infiniband networking, does not allow for or support the allocation of GUID for a bonded interface when working with Mellanox's IP2GID tool which is required for configuring IP's for environment with mu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Operation Center option to only send report if there is output

Operation Center "Configure Report" should have a checkbox to prevent sending a report if there is no output.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

RHEL 8 server support

After Linux: Minimum Linux x86_64 server requirements https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.7/srv.install/r_srv_lnx_sysreq_inst_x-linux.htmlthere is RHEL support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

TS7700 Feature License panel should have option to display by s/n and not by node

Recently we noticed that a few features on the TS7700 were missing. The codes had been shipped but not installed. In trying to match up the feature codes that we did have installed we noticed that some of the feature codes are listed twice in the ...
about 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale make inodes allocated to root file system able to be reallocated.

We would like to request an enhancement that will allow for inodes already allocated to the root file system to be reallocated to independent file sets.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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