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    Enable Case Sensitivity in SMB Protocol

    Externalize Samba Option on mmsmb to enable Case sensitivity for customer.
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    add NetApp SnapVault Scheduling and File Indexing to SPP

    In Spectrum Protect Plus it should be possible to trigger NetApp SnapVault snapshots to NetApp Secondary Storage Systems on Prem or on Cloud and to list existing snapshots and index the files they contain. Possible restores should also be triggere...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Display information about encryption technology used in GUI & CLI encryption command

    Display information about encryption technology used in GUI & in CLI encryption command - which will help customer's cybersecurity team - requested by customer. Check this thread in slack # specv-sme-se = https://ibm-systems-storage.slack.com/...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Fusion HCI Cloud Provider for OpenShift IPI

    The idea here is to extend HCI+HCP platform strategy here to support IPI compatible OCP deployment. Current list of IPI supported platforms (circa OCP 4.14) By "IPI compatible" I mean HCI systems can be consumed by the openshift installer in the s...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 3 Not under consideration

    allow versioning/history for objects of S3 clients

    Allow versioning/history for objects of S3 clients. It would allow automatic expiration of older versions. This would help implementing smooth S3 backup solutions for many modern "cloud" databases and similar tools, like Postgres, MongoDB, Hashico...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Needs more information

    Spectrum Contol and Dell/EMC VPLEX

    We would like to Spectrum Control to monitor Dell/EMC VPLEX. We use SC to monitor most of our IBM Storwize/SVC installations. We use performance monitor to look at performance statistics and array monitoring for alerting, reporting and billing. We...
    about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

    CSM to include text of event in email subject for email notifications

    It would be very helpful if the email notifications from CSM could include not just the event code, but the text of the event in the email subject.
    about 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Remote Console - SVC

    It is possible to have remote console access to the SVC engine - where there are remote sites, to be able to review if there is an issue during upgrade, or view boot process.
    about 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Support for Spectrum Protect Container Storage Pools Greater Than 1PiB

    Currently, container storage pools have a limit of 1PiB per Protect server. For backing up very large environments (such as Spectrum Scale), this can lead to a proliferation of Protect servers, increasing the complexity of the solution.
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    dsm.opt file getting blanked out when disk is full

    We have observed couple of times that on Windows BA client dsm.opt file is getting banked out. dsm.opt size becomes 0 bytes and file is empty. We are using node replication. When disk is full and node replication is being used then while running b...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Is a defect

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