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    SC/SI don't offer more OS options for hosts

    Host objects in SI and SC have some default options for OS type and a catchall for "Other."
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Scale System HashiCorp Self Encrypting Drive Support

    Add Self Encrypting Drive Support for HashiCorp Vault
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    ESS release note includes OS package list

    ESS release note includes OS package list. Currently OS image in ESS package is "cut-down" version in order to reduce its size. Our customer has upgraded legacy ESS to 6.1.2.7 then 6.1.2.8 . Every time, ESS upgrade process is suspended because of ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    VM's with virtual NVME Controller should be supported for backup and restore in TSM4VE

    VM's with virtual NVME Controller should be supported for backup and restore.API error message : The device '3' is referring to a nonexisting controller '31,000'.Case TS001855546
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Allow more to be done through Operations Center

    You have a perfectly fine start to a really useful front end to Tivoli in the Operations Center but you can barely DO anything with it. I don't want to dig around and deal with 3 line long commands to accomplish simple tasks that are point and cli...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    GUI: Provide a way to specify a the port to be used for multicluster connects _per cluster_

    We have a gpfs gui running on the dss-g xcat server. Unfortunately xcat blocks the default gui port 443 so we had to run the gui on port 8443 (suggestion by Lenovo). However, connects from multicluster gui nodes are not possible this way. We can ...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    All server-side command to control which SP server a client connects to as primary

    Allow Spectrum Protect administrator to issue a command that will alert a node it should connect to a different SP server as a primary.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Uptime command

    a "uptime" command that shows system uptime - perhaps lssystemuptime, if possible with several options to show uptime for nodes / drives / ports and other components
    over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Allow copy storage rules to select only active data AND to allow selection of from-date and to-date for copy to tape in fully hydrated tape copies.

    This is useful because starting from scratch and trying to copy multiple inactive as well as the active copy of extremely large data backups (for example Epic databases) to tape for hydrated copies takes an extremely long time. The library is unav...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    SPP report backup data stored and transferred for each VM machine in XLS and SCV output format for selected time frame.

    Our customer is charged for transferred and stored backup data. We are missing option to schedule report with option to select time frame. At best to have output in XLS and mainly SCV format which can be imported to SACR (Smart Automated Capacity ...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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