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Refresh support for HPE 3PAR/StorServ

Update current support for HPE 3PAR (StorServ) to support devices with newer firmware/SMI-S agents
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

Allow Easytier to place data on any tier of storage

The customer would like to tell Easytier to place incoming data on any tier of storage, specifically in this case, tier 0. They pull in databases to their storage and want to quickly access them from Tier 0. This functionality is provided in compe...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

FS7200 Proxy UI Test Function

FS7200 Proxy UI menu shows false information
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

Complete list of client instrumentation categories

According manual "IBM Spectrum Protect Version 8.1.0 / Optimizing Performance" administrators can collect and analyse data for client performance problems. The table of client instrumentation categories that are tracked/timed is not complete (e.g....
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Node Replication available for NDMP storage pools

Is it in the roadmap to include storage pools with format=NETAPPDUMP, CELERRADUMP or NDMPDUMP in Node Replication ?
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Enable SPLITLARGEO also during LAN-Free backups

The backups done using LAN-Free do not use the option SPLITLARGEO, so the files biggest that 10Gb are not fragmented, when using the same environment, but without LAN-Free, the backups are splitted on files less, or equal to 10G.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Make connmgr pod persists its memory state to avoid stalled scans

When the connmgr pod in OpenShift is restarted while a scan is running but not fully indexed into DB2 yet we're stuck in a loop. A newly started connmgr pod does not know about its previuos scans hence it can not commit a scan when asked by the co...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to Python SDK for Spetctrum Discover

When run in OpenShift, every pod that uses the SDK seems to require root privileges because the SDK mounts data connections under /nfs-scanner/. We have some Python scripts that use the SDK to work on files and apply tags to them in Spectrum Disco...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

Hyperswap: Choosing survival site

Need ability to specify site, that remain active in case of replication link is down (split brain).Customer strongly required to manually choose main site,
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

VOLHISTORY Maintenance

In reference to the growth of the VOLHISTORY file due to the entries of the new volumes that are created weekly by the FILE-type STGs. Weekly the VOLHISTORY file grows since every week new volumes are generated in the STG of file type, these volum...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration