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    Pod placement on OCP infra nodes

    Ability to schedule BaaS/SPP components inside Kubernetes/Openshift environments into dedicated nodes, based on placement rules.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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 5 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 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 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 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    TSM Admin Center(tip) needs support for Firefox 6 and beyond.

    TSM Admin Center - tip(tivoli integrated portal) does not support firefox 6 and beyond. It needs to support firefox 6 and beyond for currency in our environment.
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 6 Not under consideration

    Inbound replication should report statistics into the summary table

    Currently statistics for data ingested using replication (classic, stgrule or protect stgpool) is not completely reported to the summary table, the bytes value is always 0. This makes it difficult to run reports or monitor load on a server that ha...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future 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 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Provide TSM Client for Ubuntu s390x zLinux

    Please provide a TSM Client (Spectrum Protect Client) installer for Ubuntu on s390x
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

    AIX v7.3 support for IBM Spectrum Control Server

    Add AIX v7.3 to the list of OSs supported by IBM Spectrum Control Server.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

    DRP support for compressed volumes with Enhanced Stretch Cluster

    Currently due to latency considerations on an Enhanced Stretch Cluster (SVC) we are unable to leverage DRP and use compressed and/or deduplicated volumes. 8-node SV1 enhanced stretch cluster, FC connected with X6-8 Brocade core switches and data c...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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