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    Better handling of fragments during backup storagepool

    When copying data to a copy pool, all (or large parts of) the copied data can be rolled back, if some - but not all - fragments of a super-aggregate is among the copied data. This can happen if the backup storagepool process is deliberately stoppe...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    dsmc -filelist quotes and control characters

    There are constraints that prevents BA client from processing files: they may not contain quotes and apostrophes; thay may not contain control characters either.IBM should come up with escape and quoting rules that could allow BA client to process...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Allow the Repository Server IP hostname/port to be updated

    Allow the Repository Server IP hostname/port to be updated in the SPP Gui to cater for infrastructure changes where the SP server IP address has changedand to allow the possiblity to allow the SPP server to be repointed to the failover object agen...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Tiering rules need more flexibility for Filesystem and/or type of data (Backup/Archive)

    I would like to see the tiering rules to be able to be a bit more flexible. I have a node that has Backup and Archive data.Backup data is more often needed quickly so a backup location in ContainerPools is valid.The Archive data is kept 10 years a...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Enabling the ESS storage with Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 for storage and processing based on CXL Fabric

    CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Control Probe Execution Scheduling Customization below 24 hours

    The Data Collection Schedule or Probe Scheduling does not go below an "Every Day" or 24 hours. I would like to be able to schedule the probe to execute multiple times through out a 24 hour period. Having the capability to customize the schedule to...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 5 Future consideration

    Spectrum protect support for AWS Glacier

    we are using Spectrum protect 7.1.7 version to backup data to AWS S3. Our customer wants to move less frequently accessed data to Glacier to reduce cost. The AWS SLP feature can be used to achieve this but the current version of Spectrum protect d...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    VADP Proxy load statistics dashboard

    Add dashboard that shows load per per proxy (and # of tasks executed) per exectured SLA. Provide more system performance info; Are all proxy's used?, are proxys rightly scaled? are all jobs active etc.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    In the Future, adding Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 based on PCIe 6 or CXL 4.0 based on PCIe 7 to the Spectrum Scale to integrate it with Nvidia DGX ( when it enabled the CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0

    This is a necessary idea to develop a new version of Basic POD or SuperPOD which can use Nvidia DGX, Nvidia DPUs, Intel IPU, Intel FPGA , Xilinx FPGA and other CXL enabled Accelerators. We can use this super POD for advanced Cyber security solutio...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Enable changing local account passwords via RESTAPI

    We have a security standard that requires passwords to be rotated every X days or after use use. CyberArk manages the passwords for us. In order for CyberArk to be able to manage a password we need a CLI or RESTAPI that can be called to invoke a p...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

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