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Need to add the total number of nodes and enclosures column to the array tabular view

Today its a common ask in a large environment how many total enclosures or nodes are in a cluster and the only option is to drill into each cluster. Under internal resources we actually have total nodes and enclosures displayed. But this can take ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

The virgo log needs to be consistent with SPP server timezone.

The virgo log is written in UTC timezone, which is hard-code. SPP time zone is set as per SPP server location. When we analyze virgo log for any problem, it is difficult to corelate with time as SPP time zone is different. So instead of hardcoding...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Operations Center should display the TDP Client version as well as BA Client API version

In Spectrum Protect OC. I have TDP SQL clients showing version 8.1.7.1. That version does not exist for TDP SQL clients but it does exist for Windows BA client which means that the TDP node is showing the BA client version.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Adding a vSnap to 2 SPP appliances

The current Spectrum Protect Plus topology allows only one management (Spectrum Protect Plus VM) appliance to connect vSnaps.We should be able to add a vSnap to 2 different Spectrum Protect Plus appliances.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Send actlog to a remote syslog, a central loghost

There is a possibility to program userexit/fileexit to use syslog. But, the nativ support of remote syslog is needed as a standard solution. Send all entries that goes to actlog to remote syslog as a single line.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Improve AFM to handle hard links correctly

As per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.2?topic=limitations-afm-afm-dr support for hard links in AFM is very constrained. This is especially problematic for the AFM data migration use case outlined here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/s...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

FlashSystem GUI + FCM + SGC --> NO PHYSICAL CAPACITY INFO

In a FS config + FCM drives, working with CSM ans SGC (SafeGuarded Copies).Each SGC reserve 2% of LOGICALcapacity of source volume. But there is not possible to view PHYSICAL CAPACITY information after FCM compression. Virtualize GUI do not show r...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Linux autostart two Spectrum Protect scheduler services using init.d to autostart services for two nodes on the same server

The Spectrum Protect scheduler services doesn't auto start scheduler services post reboot for two nodenames.. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-protect/8.1.6?topic=spso-setting-client-scheduler-process-run-as-background-task-start-automatically...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Future consideration

TSM4VE-Request to change local user to LDAP and AD user to do File Level Restore from TSM4VE Snapshot Backup on the Linux VM

Currently to do file level restore using File Restore UI from TSM for VE Snapshot backup, File Restore UI require local user of the Linux Virtual Server, But we would like to see a change so that a LDAP or AD user can perform restore using File Re...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Include a section with fix number and description of fixes in the release notes

One of my customers opened a support case for an issue with CSM, the Support team found out they hit a bug in CSM and suggested to upgrade the CSM to a newer version (6.3.6.0) that included the fix, but they were not able to find any information i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

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