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gpfs mmputacl command

Currently there isn't a mmputacl -R option to recursively put permissions on nested directories as you can usually do we aclput -R. Not sure why that option was left out from the beginning.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Not under consideration

System managed throttles

Volumes throttling is managed at a canister/node level such that a throttle for a volume or server is the sum of what both canisters can deliver. If a canister were to fail the throttle can only deliver 50% of the original value. The throttle shou...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Prevent media with read/write errors to be reused

When a tape has a write error, it should not be reused when it has returned to scratch pool. We need some method to track media statistics across the life time of a tape, from all the SP host that has used the tape. Each SP server should send tape...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

New Vsphere TAG at VM level to specify scheduling priority

A new PRIORITY tag at vm level could be used to force the tdp4ve backup schedule to backup the vms in a desired sequence ( ex priority option from 0 to 100 ) default 100 , 0 highest priority 100 lowest priority. Customer are often requesting to ba...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Need to protect AWS RDS databases

whilst SP/SPP support native SQL databases, they do not support AWS RDS SQL. As users start to move more workloads to AWS, they need to continue protecting the data. Failure to provide this functionality within SP/SPP will make users look elsewher...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Catalog backup SLA report

Hello, We are a MSP which has ESA agreement with IBM. We provide IBM Spectrum Protect Plus as a service to our customers and guarantee %100 restore for the backups they take.Of course, we only offer this to our customers who receive Managed Servic...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

EXCLUDE.DIR Command for archive operations

My client is trying to archive and doesn't want to archive an entire directory (including subdirectories) In backup operations, there is a command that is exclude.dir through which that directory is not included in the copy. We wanted to request t...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Include resource request and limits in Fusion deployment

All Fusion critical pods should have a resource request and limit assigned at deployment time and that could be reconfigured after deployment to match new requirements. A profile concept would be created to change/set the request and limit of thes...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Ability to Clone/Copy SLA Policy

Add the ability to clone SLAs i.e. keep the retention/schedule/replication/offload settings and just give the option to set a new name
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Client and Microsoft Onedrive backup failed.

IBM Case #TS001008967 The Spectrum Protect Client is crashing when it takes backup of files within the Microsoft's Onedrive synced folder. Example:06/08/2018 10:07:37 ANS9999E ..\..\common\winnt\ntrc.cpp(765): Received Win32 RC 362 (0x0000016a) fr...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

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