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Support for proxy for Spectrum Control

Support SC (Spectrum Control) work thru Proxy. Lot of times i
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Under review

support RHEL6, SLES11 and Debian in Scale 5.0

Add support for RHEL6, Debian and SLES11 to Scale 5.0.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support DELL ECS and other for S3 lock container

Give the Avaibility to add an S3 lock container on a Dell ECS solution to improve the security. Actually it's just possible to lock the data on COS or AWS.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Exclude pagefile and c:\temp

Hello, It would be good to exclude from image backup by default the systempagefile and hiberfile (like veeam do). Additional excludes like c:\temp could improve some backup situation. Greetings Horst Groh
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Pod placement on OCP infra nodes

Ability to schedule BaaS/SPP components inside Kubernetes/Openshift environments into dedicated nodes, based on placement rules.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Replication status

Currently Spectrum Protect only show in the reports the status of a VM in compliance with replication policy but a person can not tell the % outstanding to replicate and or the % completed this makes reporting on the environment status much harder...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

New Fileset Attribute to Ignore Special Owning Group and Everyone Permissions

To allow applications outside our control to function properly when storing data in Spectrum Scale file and directory owners must be granted implicit control and have the ability to run chmod against files and directories they own. Depending on th...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Allow more to be done through Operations Center

You have a perfectly fine start to a really useful front end to Tivoli in the Operations Center but you can barely DO anything with it. I don't want to dig around and deal with 3 line long commands to accomplish simple tasks that are point and cli...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Change default to Power On VM for clone and production restores

Restore functionality - Power on VM - Production & clone restore powers on Shouldn't be default to power on as Power On VM was not ticked. Default should be leave powered off unless that option is ticked
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Monthly Operational Overview report using operation center

HiI try to generate Monthly Operational Overview report using operation center but there is no monthly option available. Currently available options are either daily or weekly only. Would you please provide e-fix for the monthly option? My operati...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

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