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Proxy Support for Spectrum Protect Operation Center

Possiblilty to configure Spectrum Protect Operation Center (hub instance) to use a http/https proxy server for downloading client packages used for the client autodeployment feature.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 5 Not under consideration

Integrate RELP support in FlashSystem

RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in FlashSystem would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Tunable options to reduce failover time of ESS when one of the IO servers fails

In 1H 2020, Korea team has made significant growth in ESS business. However it is noteworthy that business of our competitors have grown together. This is the evidence that market for fie storage is growing. Therefore it is strategically important...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

non-destructive later-on encryption activation

When customers decide not to buy encryption enablement right away with a new FlashSystem but later on because eg they get this as a new requirement or change in corporate policy, they need to destroy all data on the system and re-create arrays to ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Snapshot should recognize AIX LVM mirror setup after restore

The customer operates multiple IBM Db2 databases on the AIX platform using LVM mirrored volumes.For performance reasons, specific LV to hdisk mappings are configured inside of the volume groups.Snapshot backups are created by IBM Spectrum Protect ...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

List Fileset Capacity of Data in Different Pools

Using the mmlsfileset command, GUI, or both - add ability to see what is the capacity of the fileset on differnet pools. If a filesystem has different pools ie. system, tier1, tier2, etc... using the mmlsfileset command get the percentage of the f...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Use raid or erasure coding when storing data on tape

As tape media grows in size, the loss on one tape, maybe 40Tb of data, can be a very harmful. Data should be stored on tapes using erasure coding or raid5 technology. Then data can be recovered and the lost tape can be regenerated. This will great...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Role Based Encryption

Storage Scale's current encryption process allows anyone with access to the encrypted filesystem, with the proper access controls, to read data that was previously written.What Discover Financial services, Lockheed Martin and Well Fargo (Matt Klos...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus ability to offload historical Data

We need the ability to offload historical data to ICOS.The customer had an environment backing up for approximately 12 months before ICOS was implemented and we started offloading.The customer wanted all its historical data offloaded to ICOS howev...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

insert more than two media categories/types for logical volumes

Today there are only two media categories available for defining logical volumes in an IBM VTS - Media Type Cartidge System Tape and Enhanced Cartridge. But you can define the volumes as 400MB, 800MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 25GB in the library. Since w...
5 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Needs more information

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