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    IBM Spectrum Control: View Easy Tier Load Setting

    Need the ability to see what the Easy Tier Load value is for SVC mdsisk.
    over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

    more volumes on DS8000

    Currently, only 65280 volumes are possible in DS8000, due to the LSS/LCU concept. When in a FlashCopy relation, this is cut in half practically.Increase this somehow so that well more (e.g. over 200,000) volumes are possible.
    over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    More flexibility in assigning rights to administrators

    In large/complex environments with multiple people having administrative access to the Spectrum Protect server, it is desirable to be able to have better granularity on the rights assigned to each person/login or group. This is in order to be able...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Export statistics from GUI as SVG

    We are constantly asked by customers for performance data. We usually make screenshots of the graphs generated in the statistics sections of the GUI. It would be a great improvement if we could simply export the graphs as SVG (or maybe PNG). A pos...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Under review

    Better ability to filter out nodes when creating retention rule

    In an big vmware deployment you want your retention rules to be as dynamic as possible. That is you want ability to create an advanced filter to filter out the virtual machines (VM's) to be included in the retention set. In an vmware environment y...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    spectrum Protect Plus reports is missing

    Requests to add to the report's data of who performed the recovery.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Show Buffer-Credit configured per Switch-Port

    Provide a column on the switch port page with the configured buffer credits. This would help to prove a virtualize configuration or to identify a possible congerstion source.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Needs more information

    Provide option to prevent object-splitting on tape

    Having clients archiving and restoring directly to and from tape we're trying to have the least possible amount of tape mounts. However at the end of a lot of tapes the last file gets split when EOV occurs. There should be an option to consider a ...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Add mmchfileset feature to make a fileset temporarily read-only

    When migrating data, we need to be able to guarantee that no data in a fileset has been modified during the duration of the migration. Adding a feature to mmchfileset which can make a fileset read-only on a temporary basis would fulfill that requi...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

    Bring back the Spectrum Protect Web Client

    What was our main way of doing restores and manual backups is now gone. For over twenty years I have used tsm - spectrum protect and using the web client which was big part of that time. Without it we have to remote desktop to servers taking away ...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

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