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    Need to sort VSNAP by name or by site in SPP GUI

    We have more than 60 VSNAPs and we need to sort them by name or by site
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Display VM name to restore JOB Name

    Hi, We find it extremely hard to follow & find my restore vm's since our environment have many restore due to massive data reuse and the restore jobs are not displaying the restored vm names and there is only numbers such as: OnDemandrestore_1...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support for Grouping protocol nodes for separate workloads

    Client would like the ability to group Protocol nodes for specific uses rather than having every protocol sharing every export.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Fusion HCI internal Scale Storage as PV for ROKS on Cloud Satellite without ODF

    Enable so the internal Scale Storage in Fusion HCI can be used as PV for ROKS on Cloud Satellite without ODF. Using ODF on top of redundancy in Scale causes very low storage utilization without real incremental redundancy benefits. Some kind of st...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

    Enclosure-loss protection on Storwize V7000

    Please implement contra-rotating SAS cabling for connections from Controller enclosure to drive enclosures. This gives additional failure protection and avoids enclosure interdependencies caused by "daisy-chain" connections. DS4000 / DS5000 custom...
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

    ANR2034E should be INFO and not ERROR

    It's annoying that there's an error logged just because I ran query mount and nothing was mounted (maybe that was a good thing). This is how it currently looks on one of our servers, 184644 counts of ANR2034E, second place is 938. That's a lot of ...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Enhance information provided in case of errors flushing file data from pagepool to persistent storage

    In case of failures in that area, file data may be corrupted. Providing the information which files are affected omits the effort of manually identifying them by expensive scans of the file system.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Make supported use of additional samba parameters

    In order to supply our storage users with the same user experience as on former SONAS share, we want to make supported use of additional sambashare parameters:# File browsinghide dot files = yes/nohide files = lost+foundhide special files = yes/no...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Secure server_console account in spectrum protect

    Server_Console account is not password protected which is a fail safe account in spectrum protect and need full privilege for this account. We can reduce privilege for this account; however, it will remove this account purpose which is a fail-safe...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Improve ACL management in Spectrum Scale

    Currently, ACL management in Scale is overly difficult. For instance, the mmputacl command requires the entire ACL to be reapplied, rather than just having the ability to add, delete, or modify existing entries. Additionally, inheritance does not ...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

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