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Re-seeding of backups from secondary to primary vSnap

SPP doesn't support re-seeding of backups from secondary to primary vSnap in the event of primary vSnap pool corruption/data loss. A full baseline backup is initiated if backups pointed to secondary or to a new built primary vSnap.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Allow SP Plus backups to Spectrum Protect server w/o requiring a backup to the vSnap storage first

A backup to Spectrum Protect is not possible w/o doing first a backup to a vSnap. The dependency on vSnap should be removed to allow leveraging the Spectrum Protect server storage hierarchy.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Pre-migration Queue Threshold Alert

Description: This would be useful to quickly identify issues with the VTS that can happen should it stop offloading to physical tape for any reason. Currently there is no alert, and the first symptom of trouble will come from long running jobs tha...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

Enable support for SLES as NFS Client on IBM Power Platform

Many SAP Customers in Europe are running SLES for their HANA DB Workload on IBM Power Systems. Due to the current search for software that offers the customer HA cluster NFS (cNFS) server functionality, Spectrum Scale is an ideal solution. But to...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'S3 Bucket Notification'

Scale S3 should be able to send event notification messages to the following destinations: 1.) Generic, -> like Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) ...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to open a case for Storage Insights via Storage Insights

Request to allow a user to open a support case for Storage Insights using Storage Insights. Storage Insights is able to open support cases for the IBM block storage systems but it does not have an option to open a support case for itself. As a res...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Spectrum Archive - Undelete functionality

Hi,Our client would like to have a feature on Spectrum Archive that will do the following :1.)Allow the undelete (recreate of stub file) of deleted file(s).2.)List all files on tape.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

Search for the node serial number

When we see a CSP ticket with a link to storage insights, the link points to the machine park, not the specific device for which the ticket is open. There is no search option to check for the node serial number. The node serial number is listed in...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

Include SNMPD in appliance

Please add snmpd module to the appliance.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'S3 Bucket Lifecycle'

One common use of S3 lifecycle policies is to automatically delete objects after a specified period. For instance, businesses can set up a policy to delete temporary files or logs older than 90 days, ensuring that unnecessary data does not clutter...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

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