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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

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

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

FCM for VMware: Support for duplicate UUIDs

In Vmware environments it is a common procedure to clone a VM. After this is done, the new VM gets the same UUID as the VM where it was cloned from. A post process is necessary in order to give the cloned VM a new UUID. If this post process is not...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM for VMware: GUI field "backup end time" should be optional

When a new backup schedule is created, the GUI forces the user to enter a backup end time. These fields should be optional because some clients want the schedule to run forever.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM for VMware: For VM restore GUI should ask for Storage Resource Group

If a VM is being restored to another location the GUI does not ask for a Storage Resource Group. This implies that it is impossible to restore the VM to any Storage Resource Group. Instead the VM is being restored outside an Storage Resource Group...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Fields for frame/tray/disk expandability

Currently in a DS8k storage GUI we can see the little graphic of the frames connected and all the components inside each frame. we need the ability to see this graphical information in columns so we can determine if a frame has any expand-ability ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SVC Mirrored Volumes - Change all primary Volumes at once

In SVC current releases, it is not possible to switch all primary volumes at once from one mirror to the other. It's only possible switch the primary state for each LUN (Volume) in the SVC for mirrored Volumes.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under 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

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