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Linux command for managing Spectrum Discover

Most UNIX/Linux users are used to work on the command line. I would like to propose the following idea: create a command called "sdcli" (Spectrum Discover cli) or "dmcli" (Data Management cli) which can be a shell or Python script and can be insta...
over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

SVC GMCV single shot mode

Currently the Global Mirror with Change Volumes is designed to be a continuous replication technology.Customer have brought up the suggestion that the underlying implementation could actually also be used for Snapshot based backups that will be tr...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

AIX v7.3 support for IBM Spectrum Control Server

Add AIX v7.3 to the list of OSs supported by IBM Spectrum Control Server.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

Delete a single VM or data backup in SPP

30 Aug 2018 11:57 AM Mike, I would recommend opening an RFE and requesting this functionality. Robert[Less]30 Aug 2018 11:57 AMrobertsd (IBM) changed Status from Waiting for IBM to Awaiting your feedback.30 Aug 2018 11:49 AMMike Swartz (Customer) ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Ganesha Per Client Statistics

ganesha_mgr/ganesha_stats allow only seeing either the overall NFS operations or the per-export breakdown of the NFS operations. There is no command that displays the per-client operations of a particular export which is critical when trying to tr...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Report to show backup storage by SLA

Report to show backup storage by SLA will helps us quickly check which SLA is taking up the most backup data
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Users should not be able to view every other users' filespaces

Currently, any authorised user of TSM can view the list of filespaces owned by any other user (provided that user is running on the same platform) by giving the "fromnode" argument to 'query filespace' in dsmc, for instance:> q fi -fromnode="my...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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

Provide connectivity from the CSM to the arrays when IP network is gone

In a worst case, Have the ability to perform a restore is the IP Network is unavailable. Have the ability to 'hardwire' a server running CSM to connect and communicate with the array to perform backup and restore.
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Automate Kubernetes Integration (Installation, Configuration & B/R)

Currently, integrating and configuring Kubernetes Backup (PVCs) is a manual and complex step. It has to be done manually in the K8s cluster and requires a large bunch of preparations and various commands to be executed to get it integrated. Additi...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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