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SPECTRUM PROTECT VMWARE REPORTING BY VMWARE FOLDER

ability to automatically recover (with cli) the result of the vmware backups displayed by the IBM Spectrum Protect plugin in the VSphere client (web) by folder vmware location>Datacenter>Folder>Monitoring>IBM Spectrum Protect
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

parallel exec mmnfs command

We need Spectrum Scale to have this capability that to exec parallel mmnfs export.As the PMR TS001242955 said: "When using mmnfs export command, it will modify and update export configuration in CCR repository. And we know, the CCR DB update requi...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

SNMPv3 support in GPFS GUI

Morgan Stanley is asking for upgrade to SNMPv3 (GPFS GUI alerts)
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Dump of login information (auditlog) from the Spectrum Protect Plus application to monitor it in Rsyslog

Hi, we have enabled the Rsyslog, to monitor the accesses (login) to the Spectrum protect Plus, for the Linux server we already have it working, but for the login in the application there is no option, since this information is only in the GUI, and...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Operations Center does not allow a Container-Copy to be defined on a Directory Pool which Node Reps to a server using Cloud

When a Directory Container Pool is using Node Replication to replicate to a server which stores received data in a Cloud Container Pool, the Operations Center GUI does not all a Copy-Container Pool to be defined to allow a PROTECT STGPOOL to tape ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Additional Replication IP for Secondary Server beside high level address and low level address

Secondary server has 2 IPs but we can only specify 1 hl address when server is defined on primary server. Because of that all clients for which replication is enabled, want to use the HL address to perform backups when called for. Ultimately would...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

DECOMMISSION NODE' is not updating RETENTION RULE

Retrule contains decom vm nodes which result in failed retention set copy.Decommission node do not update retention rule so that every decomission node action requires a manual maintenance for the retention rule
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Is a defect

Add a column to the file report with the backup time

We are missing a column in Spectrum Discover file report for Spectrum Protect, which shows the latest backup date and time for each file.
about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Control Storage Consumer report does not work when using DRP on SVC

Storage consumer report can use Capcacity or Allocated Spaces on volumes when generating a report. Allocated space on a volume is not counted when using DRP (Data Reduction Pool) on a storage system and reported as 0. It is not possible to determi...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

connect to DB2 directly due to more complex SQL queries

We have the requirement to connect to DB2 directly due to more complex SQL queries (readonly, so only select) and have some questions: - If we run a pod with our Python code in the Spectrum Discover namespace in OpenShift can we add the secret "db...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 4 Not under consideration

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