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    Direct links to custom dashboards

    Allow the ability to directly link to a custom dashboard. In large environments with many different teams, being able to send a direct link to a custom dashboard for that team would be helpful. Also being able to bookmark a dashboard or to use it ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

    Overlay / Namespace support information (Singularity Containers)

    Singularity (https://sylabs.io/singularity) is a container runtime commonly used on HPC systems that include GPFS filesystems. We are trying to understand the level of support in GPFS for overlay mounts (upperdir & lowerdir), and namespaces (i...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Client backups should not hang if replication is hung

    When replication hangs due to a target-server pool problem, client backups hang waiting on filespace locks. Replication locks should time out, or client backups should be able to pre-empt replication locks, so as to prevent large-scale backup fail...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

    Capacity Threshold Alerting

    The monitoring "Threshold" only allows for a single value to be set, not a second value. Example. Warning Threshold is set to 70%, when the pool exceeds 70% a Warning level severity alert is send. There is not an option to set a second threshold a...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Mailbox Restore Browser functionality for Exchange 2016

    I would like the Mailbox Restore Browser functionality added for Exchange 2016
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

    Repeat email alerts are often indistinguishable from "new" email alerts. Add the word "Reminder" to subject line.

    The SVC will send reminder notifications about errors/events that have not been "Fixed" every 24 hours. When these reminder emails are received, the text in the subject line is exactly the same as the original email notification. This duplication ...
    over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Allow creation of multi condition rules with selection of different (connected) devices

    Currently when we create an alert all the criteria available in the Alert Definition are related to the specific selected device, As now we have SAN Switch supported by SI ( but this is valid as well for Server) , this would be very beneficial to ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Possibility to use the "dedup_device" with TSM for ERP (DB2) Product

    Customer backup its DB2 database with Sp. Protect (ex TSM) ; backup storage is ProtecTIER (IBM Open deduplication solution). In order to boost both backup / restaure performances and deduplication ratio the 'dedup_device' option has been be set up...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

    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 7 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 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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