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Spectrum Protect Plus: can only search for databases, not SQL Servers or instances.

From our DBA:"For SQL backup, how do I search by server or SQL Instance name? Currently, I can only search by a database name. When a SQL Instance has more than one databases, how do I select a SQL Instance and run the backup so that it will backu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

For V7000 and SVC create an automated report for the status of Global Mirror sessions

Create a global mirroring report providing the status of V7000 and SVC Global mirroring that can be automatically run daily and sent via email to end users. Should contain the following (at a minimum)CG_Name Active Connnected CurrentDate/Time Last...
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Raise number of dependent Filesets

A customer wants to implement per directory quota. The maximum number of 10000 dependent filesets per file system is a limitation for introducing per directory quota.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

gpfsperf script improvements

Though gpfsperf is a sample script, it needs improvements so that the customer local file does not get filled and cause gpfs issues: - Indicate in the read me file that the local tmp file needs to large enough for the filesize to be tested - Indic...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

The enhancement of the status of the backup job on the TSM Operations Center

System: TSM Operations Center(OC)Actor: The user who wants to check the status of the backup job on the TSM OC. The TSM OC is a new console of Tivoli Storage Manager. Description: When we run the backup commands (jobs) using the TSM B/A client (CL...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

High redundancy SAS connection between expansion ecnlosure

The current design in SAS chain can't tolerate the middle of expansion enclosure fail.The middle of expansion enclosure failed will lead to pool offline.Customer hope IBM can provide high redundancy SAS chain to tolerate any of expansion enclosure...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Require key auth SSH only for Storage Insights, SpectrumScale

System: IBM Spectrum Control Storage InsightsActor: Organisation needing new auth-method enabled to be able to consume platform UQ has evolved data governance, capacity management and growth metrics as a key import factor in project planning and f...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale ECE - Need quota feature to support limiting the resource usage on different storage pools

In more and more projects, we are delivering GPFS file systems with multiple storage pools for teiring. And our customers keep asking for quota limitation of each user/group/fileset on different storage pools, because different pools have differen...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Modification of smb.conf to prevent vulnerability

The customer has to set 'server signing=mandatory' in smb.conf to prevent vulnerability.https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/887429http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731957.aspxhttp://www.nessus.org/u?74b80723http://www.samba.org/samba...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum CDM Support for CSV with SQL

Request if for support SQL Servers configured with Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). With Copy Data Management
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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