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Support Debian 9 with ISS 4 and 5

Support Spectrum Scale on Debian 8 and later for ISS 4.2.3 and 5.0.0 and later.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

LTO9 media pre-calibration status on TS4300 gui

LTO9 medias need pre-calibration before they can used in production. TS4300 does not report pre-calibration status on it's media listing view. This should be reported on TS4300 graphical user interface.
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 2 Not under consideration

VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) - SP for VE support

My customer has deployed a new vCenter on Amazon Web Services, using VMWare on Cloud (VMC) as hypervisor. They are already migrating onpremise production machines to this environment, but even following KB https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/10...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Mirror snapshots to another cluster as a destination snapshot

Ability to mirror a snapshot to a remote cluster - as a snapshot.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Fast approximate df for filesets

mmlsfileset df calculations are slow and causes high load on a server.  A fast approximate filesetdf (alike mmlsquota) is needed.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Increase overview on status of VM backup for administrators

When viewing status for protection of VM backup in Spectrum Protect for Virtual Enviorments, whether in OC or in WebClient we should show what type of backup was successful. Did backup success quiesced or not, is it Microsoft VSS, or VMDDK, or cra...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

FCM Oracle: Possibility to let RMAN control FCM Backups (and to see them in OEM)

Today with FCM 4.1, FCM's disk only backups cannot be seen in RMAN (Oracles Standard Backup Interface).This RFE is to implement a new interface in order to see FCM Backups in RMAN and Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

TS7700 should allow option to overwrite search history

The TS7700 will retain up to 10 previous search results when querying logical or physical volumes. Once the customer has created 10 search results any additional search attempts will be denied until the customer deletes one or more of the previous...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

Select All function in search result of BAClient GUI for NAS restore

Select All function in search result of BAClient GUI for NAS restore
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Enable assignment of volume extents to a specific tier level within an easy tier hybrid pool

Can you enable that all extents of a specific volume can be assigned to a specific tier level within an easy tier hybrid pool configuration ? Example: hybrid pool contents of 3000 GB Flash Tier and 50000 GB Enterprise tier. Create new volume and a...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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