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    Operations Center - Management class - Custom retention time

    When defining a management class from the Operations Center, there are only predefined values for the Backups, Keep Extra backups etc.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    SSD host identification for IBM i

    SSD Host identification for IBM i is very crucial for customer who have invested in SSD in DS5000 and DS8K.
    over 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Grid View of backup success rate

    The current VM backup success report takes minutes to run for a 1 day report and much longer (I gave up waiting) for a 7 day report. If the Protected and Unprotected VMs report is anything to go by it could take over 2 hours to produce this report...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    HW Snapshot support in SPP for DellEMC vPlex (VNXe/Unity)

    Customer is running a PoC on SPP and part of the PoC are support for HW snapshot. Customer is using DellEMC Compellent hardware for most VMs and vPlex on VNXe/Unity for mission critical VMs.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Online update of Spectrum Scale Clients

    I would like to have the ability to update spectrum scale releases on clients online without shuting down the gpfs on each client. So the new feature should contain an "on the fly" replacement of the kernel module during usage of the gpfs filesyst...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Issue taking VM snapshot using TDP for VMWare for vmdk size greater than 2TB

    Hello Team, We have an environment where we have TSM server(6.3.4) based on AIX 6.1 OS. We have a proxy server which is based on Windows 2008 R2 Standard. We have installed TSM for BA Client 7.1 and TDP for Virtual Environments 7.1 on the Proxy se...
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

    Oracle RAC One Node with Spectrum Protect Plus

    We need a protection with a Oracle RAC One Node configuration with 2 servers nodes and differents db instances in the both nodes. In the Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.x fail applications inventory with a Oracle RAC One Node configuration.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    check if underlying file system is mounted when creating a NFS share

    When a new NFS share is created, the mmnfs command should check if the underlying file system is mounted on all CES nodes and fail if this precondition is not fulfilled.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    SVC - Pool level Migration command

    When introducing new storage arrays and creating a new pool, it would be nice to have a pool migration command to completely migrate 1 pool to another to more easily decommission older storage in a more timely manner.
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect and Federated Catalog

    An Active Active solution with a Federated Catalog.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

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