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    Options for SPS Offload

    The tape_backup function creates a "db2 backup database" command for the offload of a FlashCopy image to TSM. This works fine but I am not able to add any backup options to this command. It is assembled by SPS. But it would be very useful to add o...
    12 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Submitted

    SED support using TPM on ESS3500

    We are requesting the addition of "SED support for TPM" to be included on the ESS3500 platform. This will provide the necessary encryption and simplify and streamline the installation and maintenance of the combined cluster including the ESS3500/S...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

    Populate contact info for ticket creation from Storage Insights

    Current ticket creation workflow from SI relies on the user entering name, email, phone number for each ticket. This data is used to find a matching support contact to use for the case. The user might get confused when the support ticket ends up o...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0

    Detailed information about a problematic inode

    “When we encounter an issue caused by or impacting a specific file which leads to deadlock conditions in the file locking functionality that scale supports the Scale development is able to provide us with an inode value after analysis of gpfs.snap...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Independent management of CES NFS and SMB service

    Customer is using CES SMB and NFS.They are using Active Directory authentication.Customer cannot stop CES SMB service independently as NFS requires SMB to authenticate users with Active Directory.Error message: "Stop NFS first in order to stop SMB...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Backup and restore/recreate local defined permissions of VMs using Spectrum Protect Plus

    Spectrum Protect Plus does not inventory permissions defined locally for VMs. Therefore, these authorizations cannot be restored in the context of a restore and must be recreated manually. Spectrum Protect Plus should be able to restore all permis...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    TDP for Nutanix agent in future version

    Hello Team, We have been working on migration from VMware to Nutanix AHV, i have been exploring whether we can take backup of these VM's in AHV cluster using the TDP for VE, unfortunately it is not supported, My Idea is here to include or develop ...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Future consideration

    Protocols - S3 Glacier for Storage Protect managed tape libraries

    It seems the feature has been implemented in NooBaa, but Storage Scale still does not officially support the S3 Glacier feature. Without S3 Glacier support, S3 users have no idea that their data has been migrated. This creates challenges for syste...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Future consideration

    Ability to modify or add a fcport of a host that is in a partition.

    Assuming PBHA and\or PBR: It may happen that a FC HBA of a host is replaced or that a HBA is redeployed. Or a host has already been created with 1 FC port. In these situations it is not possible to adjust this.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    mdisk array expansion is too slow

    one of my clients needed to expand pool capacity by expanding the underlying mdisk array after adding new FCM4s. The process is taking too long, months on FS9500. Last expansion they were doing, they added 12x FCM4 and the array is estimating 40 d...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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