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    audit container markdamaged needs to update inventory objects as damaged

    Any process that marks extents damaged should queue a process to mark those objects damaged which rely on the extents. AUDIT CONTAINER ACTION=MARKDAMAGED only marks extents damaged, so inventory objects stay not-damaged. Even later, if they are ac...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

    Integrate RELP support in FlashSystem

    RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in FlashSystem would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Ability to alter the audit log retention period

    Hello! We recently came across the need to reduce the audit log retention period of a storage scale system to save some space and we realized that the only way to do that is to disable and re-enable the audit log feature altogether. As an end user...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Add DA pair column to DS8000 drives listing

    Please add a DA pair column to DS8000 drives (DDM) listings. Within a DS8000, spare drives are restricted to the device adapters they are connected to. And each device adapter pair has a number of available spares, usually 4. It is threrefore impo...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Postspone client issued delete backup commands from API and/or BA clients

    Whenever a client that has 'deletebackup=yes' submitts a delete data request, this request should be queued for deletion pending approval from admin or executed after a few days. Maybe a optional field on the node 'DeleteDelay (days)'
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Support for SQL on Linux

    SQL DBA's do a research for using MS SQL on Linux for Big Databases
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Redesign DELETE FILESPACE for reduced log pinning and active log utilization

    DELETE FILESPACE pins the DB2 active log st the start, and considers the entire deletion one transaction. This is not how ingested data is handled. Because of this disparity, it is possible to receive a large object, such as an NDMP backup, which ...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

    SP server to support IBM S3 cloud side retention policies, WORM features, object locking

    When using Cloud Storage Pool in a Spectrum Protect Server , it should support all the features that can be set at the S3 level ( especially when the S3 cloud is IBM !! ) like Cloud side retention policies, WORM features, object locking.For retent...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

    Physical Usable capacity view in License Compliance Tab

    Need the ability to display Physical Usable capacity in the Spectrum Control License Compliance Tab. Many customers that are virtualizing IBM storage behind San Volume Controller are licensed based on "Physical Usable" capacity so their licensed c...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

    Customer needs more detail on client activity to be able to manage backups effectively

    A customer needs more information to be able to effectively manage client backups. If a client experiences an exception, it is important to be able to look at its historical success and failure and workload. Specifically, in the details section fo...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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