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Add option to mmlsfileset to list only independent or dependent filesets

mmlsfileset does not have a direct way to list dependedent or independent filesets. While is possible wrapping out the output of mmlsfileset -L/-Y to then pass it to mmcrsnapshot so only quiescence the IO once. I wonder if it is possible to add --...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Storing unknown tags returned by applications for review and addition after a policy is completed.

Currently, any tags you wish to extract using a deep-inspect policy must be defined in spectrum discover before you create the policy. In the development of an application for extracting technical metadata from a range of file types, we are met wi...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

Reduce ffdc ALL output size to always stay under 100GB

Disk space on the root filesystem in Spectrum Discover can be very limited, and when building support logs package for IBM support we need to ensure that the resulting log package is small enough to fit on disk, small enough to transfer off of the...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

REST API as part of build test plan

The REST API is not being tested prior to packaging new Operation Center builds. This was found in 8.1.4 because a module version was upgraded, but not updated in the server.xml file. No one in L1 nor L2 knew about this issue, but it was immediate...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Manage Automatic Move Container process

Create an option to manage the time that the IBM Spectrum Protect server can start the Automatic Move Container processes.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

LIN_Tape device driver support for RHEL RealTime Kernel

Customer is evaluating IBM Spectrum Protect and would like to have the ability to install/configure the IBM LIN_Tape-3.0.46-1.src.rpm (downloaded from IBM Fix Central) on the Real-time RHEL7.5 kernel. The customer is not able to successfully compi...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Migration from CPS

Provide capability for customers to move from legacy CPS hardware to fusion
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Not under consideration

Requesting that customer system name be included in Call Homes for ESS and IBM Storage products.

It has been noted that ESS Call Home cases (inclusive of other IBM Storage as well) do not have the name of the system in the cases description. We are requesting that this change so that system names are included in the call home for the CSP case...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job, like the function to exclude complete VMs via the Policy Options or by using a specific VM tag.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VE file level restore lacks of indexing

Unable to quickly find deleted files without mounting all potential snapshots
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

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