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Automate Cache DDM reporting information

Morgan Stanley is requesting Cache DDM information beyond what we implemented in the TS7700 for the 8.50 release. From the Download System Summary ICON you can retrieve a csv file which contains a summary of the code levels, vtd_execs installed,.....
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

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

SCDM notify on failure only

SCDM should have an option to send notification emails on job failures only instead of for every result. I don't really need an email for a successful job.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM should support daylight savings time

SCDM should support daylight savings time
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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

Metro DR configuration in Fusion SDS with internal container native storage (ODF/FDF)

Two of our largest banking customer in France are planning to deploy an OpenShift environment based on their common requirements in terms of storage resilience using several data centers. This means primarily the setup of a two site Metro DR confi...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future 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 cipher encryption on Fusion when doing remote mount of scale filesystems in Global data platform

When working with banking clients, all communication must be encrypted. Scale remote mounts can be done by using CIPHER encrpyion but the default used by fusion is authonly. We need to allow cipher auth in the remote mount fusion is doing when wor...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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