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    SP Plus interface enhancement: vm search and selection

    In the SP Plus interface, in the backup tab (/pages/hypervisor/vmware/backup) , while searching a VM to assign it to a particular SLA Policy, it would be nice to have a filter available to limit the scope of the search. First thing I think about i...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support DELL ECS S3 Object Lock for Spectrum Protect Backup

    It is a major Spectrum Protect customer request. This customer already owns DELL ECS and wants to use it to host immutable backups. It should work as it is the case with Spectrum Protect on AWS Object Lock today.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Prometheus Exporter for Tape Library metrics

    Currently the CLI and the REST API allows to monitor the TS4500 library by self written scripts. But it would be very useful to have a simple script which already provides all available metrics of the library to Prometheus. In our Environment we u...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Please sign Insights with an IBM certificate - security apps block Insights binaries

    Security software like Bit9 block Insights binaries. Insights binaries are blocked even after whitelisted by security admins because Insights files are copied to different folder than the installation folder. Also, automatic updates are not possib...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

    Migration plans for cloud offload data in SPP

    Customers looking to make use of cloud offload generally have archival of snapshots in mind. This particular customer is currently using CloudA today may want move to CloudB sometime in the future. Currently when a cloud destination is changed in ...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Change capacity limit for file storage systems

    The new capacity planning report functionality tracks against a capacity limit of 100%. However, customers may have a threshold for implementing administrative controls on growth, data migration, or initiating new purchases. It would be helpful to...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Volume performance & capacity metrics in native UI.

    These are now considered basic features in competitive products. Over the last couple years it has become a concern with clients as to why we still don't have these: ----performance----1. Real-time volume performance statistics in native UI.2. Rea...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    SPP multi-domain support

    Please provide multi-domain authentication to SPP.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    CHTASK to change task period at Scale GUI is not persistent

    CHTASK to change task period at Scale GUI is not persistent. In order to improve their monitoring integration with Grafana, client needs to shorten the frequency of some GUI tasks . I used the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/chtask <task> --period <...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Users with the “Monitor” role should also be able to change their own password using RoE

    Since firmware version 1.10, it has been possible to change a user's password via a RoE endpoint. According to the documentation, every user should be able to change their own password. However, according to the support team, this is not available...
    9 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 4 Is a defect

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