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Include proxy node (PROXY_AGENT) info in actlog

When using proxy nodes to put data into a single proxy target, it would be nice if operations by proxy nodes (PROXY_AGENT) are logged together with the proxy node name i a seperate column in the TSM server activity log.If backups are done directly...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

Backup of Shared VHDX and Shared VHDX in a set

would like the ability of backing up Hyper-V VM's using SPP when they are configured with Shared VHDX and/or Shared VHDX in a Set.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP - Sort lists / Provide user ability to sort

Lists in the user interface are not sorted: vSnap servers, VADP servers, SLAs when assigning an SLA to a VM, etc. All lists should be sorted by default and should also provide the user the ability to click any column to sort by that column.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Make usage time series information available via the Spectrum Scale API

The Spectrum Scale Management GUI has time series information available for GPFS file systems and filesets. This information includes (but is not limited to) the change in block usage (i.e. how much space used) and change in inode usage. However t...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

to extend the internal log retention period for error logs

Customer want to extend the internal log retention period for error logs in copy function. It will disappear in about an hour, but customer want us to keep it for at least one day.
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

one Spectrum Scale GUI monitors multiple ESS clusters

PingAn deployed several ESS clusters in China/Beijing and China/Shanghai. So far, they have to login different GUI web to monitor different clusters. PingAn raised the request for one Spectrum Scale GUI to monitor multiple ESS clusters so that the...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

add a default editor to the mmeditacl command

Currently there is no built-in editor for the command mmeditacl. However, there is a built-in editor for the command mmedquota. This is a request to add a built-in editor to the mmeditacl command.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Most Expedient Full Datacenter Restore from Cloud

The copy to cloud offload feature is used generally as a secondary backup after the initial backup on vSnap and a secondary backup to a vSnap at another site. During the backup process, the changed blocks from the last snapshot are uploaded to the...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

LTO9 drive relative humidity value

LTO9 drive reports snmpt-trap alerts if it's relative humidity value is out of range. This relative humidity value of LTO9 drive should be visible on TS4300 graphical user interface.
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

Replication job 'Fails' when there is no data

We have a use case where we would like to leave replication enabled for a backup SLA that runs manually. As the job is run infrequently users will not remember to run replication when they run the job. However, SPP reports the replication job as '...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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