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Externalise Achive to tape backup

Hello, I dont know why you have created an archive to tape solution without any possibility to externalise the tapes. We really need this option fefore we are going to another solution. Regards, Nabil AMER
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

OC Send reports monthly

Today OC can create and send reports daily or weekly, we would like to create and send report monthly also. We have seen the need at several customers to send monthly reports.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale GUI & API should support nested groups with LDAP/IPA authentication

Using nested groups (objectclass=nestedGroup) is a common feature of modern directories (e.g. Active Directory, FreeIPA/RedHat Identity Manager, and IBM Tivoli Directory Server ) and make it much easier to manage group memberships by adding a grou...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

You are not warned of IOGrp Overload

Storwize will let you continue to add volumes to an overloaded IOgrp. There are no limits in this area which means you can add more work to an already stressed IOGRP. There is no balance either meaning one IOgrp can be over loaded while other IOgr...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Migrate Storagepool - Client data is faster than migration

Client backups fail when migration of storage pool to successor storagepool takes too long.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

GPFS AFM gateways must handle migrated/offline files in asynchronous fashion

As per the case above, we have experienced many issues in the gateway (AFM) performance, stability and global usability as a result of long waiters arising from the use of offline files in the backend of the GPFS cache and home relationship. These...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management needs to support AIX LVM volume Mirroring for HA (2 separate storage devices for each mirror)

Any user of AIX with HA/LVM Mirrors will benefit. Not every AIX system can be brought up to current code and FlashCopy Manager no longer supports aix 6. I have an SAP/Oracle System with HA across 2 sites/SVC clusters. An LVM mirror is in each site...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

SPP native restore to VSI on IBM Cloud

Many OnPrem VMWare environments require both backup to IBM Cloud using Spectrum Protect Plus and a non-urgent form of DR plan using IBM Cloud components. Currently this is only possible using Bare Metal options. SPP should be natively able to rest...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Network Virtualization Fusion

In telecommunications industry we cannot use standard virtualization with Fusion HCI. This will open us a new market segment
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Not under consideration

dscli communication with DASD frame - password less

Currently for a dscli software to connect to a DASD frame, a static user ID & password has to be passed. But to automate procedures using a static password defined in the script is an audit exposure. Also I see we can setup a pwfile making pas...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

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