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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...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

View VM DataStore Size when restoring VM

I would like the ability to see the size of the DataStore I am restoring to from within the Spectrum Protect Plus VM restore GUI. Right now if I want to restore to a datastore I have to open VMWARE to make sure there is enough space available on t...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Externalize Netview/GDPS Response Messages

In the current design the only facility to diagnose problems encountered in the Netview and GDPS Command/Response sequences is to repeat the migration with the SNAP option specified. This would be unnecessary if the messages were written to the JO...
over 4 years ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Future consideration

Monthly daily SPP backup report

For a given month (or period) provide daily SPP backup status (success, failed, undone). Provides single view to compute the backup SLA commonly used in outsourcing engagement.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Allow VDI timeout to be user controlled (SP for MSSQL, legacy backups)

When using Spectrum Protect's data protection for MSSQL (legacy backups), there is a hardcoded timeout limit for the TDP to wait for the availability of the VDI. Currently this is set to 60 seconds, and can only be observed by tracing the TDP oper...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 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...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

Add support for Subject Alternate Name in certificate request through the GUI.

Chrome 58 and above now checks for the presence of the Subject Alternate Name in the certificate. If it isn't found, the certificate is deemed to be insecure or broken. The new GUI certificate request feature should ask the user for the SAN name d...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Make mmsdrrestore command able to restore Zimon configuration files

The files /opt/IBM/zimon/ZIMonCollector.cfg and /opt/IBM/zimon/ZIMonSensors.cfg are needed for the pmcollector and pmsensors daemons.When a node is re-installed we use the mmsdrrestore command to restore the GPFS node configuration. Unfortunately ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Storing File Permission and ACL on LTFS

Because of our security requirement we want to store the file and acl permissions, owner and group info already for the files that are migrated to tape with spectrum archive.
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Support for CSVFS

We are using spectrum protect backup software to backup windows environments, one of the requirement from business side to backup CSVFS file system, which is not supported yet.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration