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Need FS9200 to support SCSI PR Read Full Status at SPC-3 Standard

Client wishes to implement FS9200 with RHEL HA Clustering. For success they need FS9200 to support Read Full Status Service action (03h) and perhaps yet unknown other functionality that comes with SPC-3.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

DEACTIVATE DATA to include FILESPACE and FSID

DEACTIVATE DATA should allow a FILESPACE or FSID to allow purging only specific filespaces by date.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

ESS to support AD integration

ESS does not currently support joining AD in order to perform user authentication. ESS should support AD instead of, or in addition to, local authentication.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

SpecVirt location field doesn't allow non-alphanumeric chars

The "location" field in Spec Virt products doesn't allow for non-alphanumeric chars.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

Client backups should not hang if replication is hung

When replication hangs due to a target-server pool problem, client backups hang waiting on filespace locks. Replication locks should time out, or client backups should be able to pre-empt replication locks, so as to prevent large-scale backup fail...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

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

add webproxy/authentication for TSM Auto Client Deployment ftp access

The Auto Client Deployment function in the TSM Admin Center has the ability to connect to the IBM ftp servers and automatically download client packages, which assists managing large corporate environments. Unfortunately, large corporate environme...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

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
over 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...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Changing the mnt directory from root to dedicated file system

If we have a dedicated filesystem, it won't affect the space on root file system on Production servers. In our environment only, we faced the situation like the root file system is full due to this /mnt/spp/vsnapx/fspooly/ directory.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration