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    The Protection summary screen shouldn't show the replica VMs

    Spectrum Protect Plus "Protection Summary" screen shows our replica machines that replicated with Recover Point.This is a misleading situation. Both our machine count and the number of machines that are not backed up seem wrong.It needs to be fixed.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    Central Storage Managment console for SVC / Vxxxx Storage

    Provide a Central Management Console, like XIV GUI, for SVC and Vxxxx Storage
    about 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Need to track configuration changes to avoid accidental or malicious changes on the configuration

    In Spectrum Protect is no mechanism implemented to avoid accidental or malicious changes of configuration when logged into the adminstration client as an administrator. To achieve a higher protection for this case scenario we would need a mechanis...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Overflow data placement

    When creating a new filesystem with more than 1 pool, GPFS will guess where to put the file data. It would be nice if it was also capable of spillover to other pools, when the pool it guessed for here runs full: RULE 'default' SET POOL 'data' LIMI...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to alert if any and all encryption servers are not reachable

    Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to alert if any and all encryption servers are not reachable. This would useful during production monitoring.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Temporary Threshold Removal for any Cache Partition

    Enable Temporary Threshold Removal on Models TS7770 - VED-Tape attached for all Cache Partitions CP0-7.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Qumulo SMB backup API integration

    Integration with Qumulo API to eliminate the long/timely treewalk to see which files/folders have changed.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Enable to bulk select the Hard disk1 or other hardidisk of all the VMS to protect.

    There is no way using the GUI to bulk-select all 'Hard disk 1' of all the VMs to protect. I want to protect only harddisk 1 (OS disk) Via SPP. But need to do it 1 by 1. There should be filter out disks for complete landscape.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Probes fail against Brocade Switches (v9.0.0b)

    v.5.4.2: Unable to Probe Brocade Switches (v9.0.0b) - java.lang.NullPointerException/RestBrocadeSwitchProbe.run()] [ERROR] Error writing protobuf to ProbeOutput file
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Is a defect

    Modify Spectrum scale GUI theme/layout to avoid security finding

    Security findings: For the Wireless, open a ticket with the vendor to determine how to change the theme or layout of the web/gpfs login page and/or a feature request to change layout due to graphics definitions in the HTML matching wireless access...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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