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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

Sp. Virtualise for Public Cloud support for Google Cloud

IBM has responded to a global RFP for HSBC which will replace 60PB of EMC Tier storage. It was made clear to us that without support for cloud integration / tiering to Google (HSBCs strategic cloud provider) our chances would be slim
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

DEACTIVATE FILESPACE

Based on the principle of new commands, DEACTIVATE and DECOMMISSION, which act on the nodes,we should be able to go down to the file system level.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Server for SLES 15.X

No versions of Spectrum Protect are currently support SLES15
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Native LDAP for DS Storage

Description - Include native LDAP feature for DS8K frames, currently only DS888x frames have it built in w/ CSM Current Workaround - no workaround
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Add Ansible for SLES at Scale Toolkit packaging

As known, Ansible is required for Scale Toolkit. The installation of Ansible is done through pip3 install and it connects to a repository to install Ansible. Some clients, special in financial sector, have restrictions to make their servers with e...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Operation Center reports to be saved and duplicate a report template

Current version of SP OC interface doesn't allow to save report results . It has only email option.I have clients still using TSM ORT tool to save reports or email . Due the lack of save function within SP OC we can not utilise reporting.If we cre...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add the source/target DS8K serial or WWN in the DSCLI lspprc command output

When issuing the lspprc command, the output shows you the type of pprc and the source/target lss, but not to which DS8K you are copying to/from. In a multitarget environnement with a lss being the source of multiple pprc, knowing the targeted DS8K...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Support more than 32 active GM Sessions

Increase the maximum supported active GM sessions in DS8880 from current hardware limitation of 32 active sessions to at least 64 active sessions . For example the IBM SVC support up to 256 - https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S101...
almost 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus GUI national language support

Request for SPP GUI in Japanese.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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