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TSM client Web GUI in TSM vwersion 8.1.4

TSM client Web GUI availability in TSM server version 8.1.4.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

Metadata tags cannot be added/associated to Filespaces in Spectrum Protect

Metadata tags cannot be added/associated to Filespaces in Spectrum Protect
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Allow to ignore out_of_memory health issues

We have users running memory-intensive research programs that regularly trigger out_of_memory situations. These clear up pretty quickly. However, the system monitor (mmsysmon) retain the out_of_memory information until the affected host reboots. A...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Future consideration

TSM Script Editing feature that was in the Administration Center to be in Operations Center

would like the TSM Script Editing feature that was in the Administration Center to be in Operations Center.The Admin Center Script editor was pretty “low function”, but at least it allowed changes and cut and paste. And it had a nice syntax checki...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

add a NetApp Snapshot based backup and restore functionality to SPP

Addition of a function to secure NetApp file server with SPP on vSnap server. This should be done on the basis of NetApp snapshots. The feature should be able to replace the current Spectrum Protect feature for NetApp data protection at the file l...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

RFE: Chargeback reporting in SPP

Request from State of Arkansas for chargeback reporting based on the amount of data backed up in SPP per VM. (Not the amount of data stored on the vSnap server, after dedup compression - only amount of data backed up during backup job.)
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

ANR0991I alert/notification implementation

As you can see in the support case ID there is no possibility to receive alerts or notifications for the ANR0991I when Spectrum protect server s are shutdown. In the operational center the possibility seems to be there but it's triggering nothing....
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

PDU Power Cord for 92F too short for CMA

The two 2.8m PDU power cords for the 92F high density expansion are too short for the cable management arm it is supplied with. The power cords avialable for the 92F in econfig should be longer to allow the cable management arm to be extended, con...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Remove distinction between private and public IP address ranges

Remove the distinction between processing for private IP address ranges 10.0.0.0, 192.168.0.0 and the other one and public IP address ranges. Process the private subnet ranges the same way public IP address ranges are processed. Remove the undocum...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Support openSUSE as a GPFS client

SLES is an officially supported Linux distribution for installing GPFS/Scale (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.1.9?topic=gpfs-software-requirements). openSUSE is binary compatible with SLES as of version 15.3 (see https://www.suse.com/c...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

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