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    Node replication at lower priority

    Ability to have 'repl node' command run at a lower, or user definable, priority.
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

    TSM for VE: Eliminate ANS1711W warning message or change to informational.

    Whenever the default backup mode is selected for a VMware VM backup (incremental forever, incremental) and a full backup has not been performed, a warning message is issued "ANS1711W Incremental backup selected for 'MLTUSAPV27', but a Full backup ...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    XS & XXS blueprint confguration for ISP

    One of our customer is planning to migrate his ISP (8.1.16) to a new HW with latest ISP version. Customer's existing setup is quite small & was implemented as per blueprint guidelines. His current Db size is 110GB with container pools size of ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Add / create a CLI command in order to remove permanent "inactive" entries from lsfabric

    With situations in which client changes zoning, this also includes when they are implementing NPIV from just physical ports (transitional), it is common to have bad manipulation from the multipath driver over the host paths which causes previous p...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    API enhancements for invoicing/billing

    In the web gui for Scale you can easily get the accounts and used storage under the "Object / Accounts" button. But there is no simple way to retrieve this information using api/rest. (There is not even a scheduled report function for it). This is...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Send notification via SS and ESS for expiring encryption certificate

    As the expiring certificate is expiring, the warning messages will be printed periodically into the GPFS daemon log (/var/adm/ras/mmfs.log.latest) in upcoming 5.0.x release. This RFE is to notify users via email or whatever means configured in ESS...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Support for secure NDMP

    NAS filer (i.e.NetApp) are supporting secure NDMP.This ensures secure communication between the NDMP server and the backup application.https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMLP2348067/html/GUID-E3157FCA-CAE6-4614-A549-557025A2EC46.html Spectrum Pro...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Manually provide Product and LUN-Identifiers for sd*-disks

    Spectrum Protect Snapshot (SPS) identifies the available disks by issuing a series of low-level Linux commands which deliver the LUN-ID and Product-ID of these devices. Among others:- dmsetup- searching /sys/block/sd*/dev- Requesting SCSI pages 0x...
    over 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

    Show Unprotected Applications

    As the System discovers "unprotected VMs" and "unprotected Databases/Applications", I'd like to get a query / view, which are these.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

    IBM SPP Support for Non-AD LDAP servers

    IBM SPP to support for Non-AD LDAP servers such as OpenLDAP
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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