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REST API Commands in Scale GUI Tasks

When completing tasks in the Spectrum Scale GUI in addition to showing the CLI commands, the equivalent REST API commands would be shown as well. This will help with users who may want to use REST API calls to complete Spectrum Scale management ta...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Move backups between nodes (datamovers)

Moving data from a datamover node to a datacenter node is not possible when it is mis-stored. Currently, with container pools, the only option is to delete those backups, or manually track them separately.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

REPLTCPSERVERADDRESS override

baclient and API need to allow persistent override of REPLTCPSERVERADDRESS or similar functionality.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Future consideration

Add system node name to the description/title of any CSP ticket generated from a call home.

The overall request is to add the system node name of the originating device into the case description whenever a call home occurs that results in a case being opened. From the sample case the customer provided, the case description is “9100 DSK00...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

BA Client for ARM/ARM64

ARM architecture user base is growing, and ARM servers needs protection too.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

One hot-spare node for multiple SVC clusters

Some of the customers have multiple SVC clusters, but all the nodes are located at the same two sites. It would be a great enhancement if the hot-spare node would not be bound to one specific cluster but could be bound to multiple clusters. With t...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Allow to expand the size of volumes in a Flashcopy mapping

Currently it is not allowed to expand the size of a volume which is part of a flashcopy mapping. This restriction should be removed.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Glacier on TSM - IBM Spectrum Protect

Data restoration from Glacier using TSM Client manager.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

RC=12 is not required for successful processing.

When the IBM Spectrum Protect backup/archive client detects that a self-signed digital certificate has expired, the expiration date is updated, but RC=12 is returned and "ANS1579E" is recorded.The process is successful and I would like RC=0 to be ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect

Isolate proxies to only backup clients in its respective esxi cluster

Need the ability to isolate proxies to only backup clients in its respective esxi cluster.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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