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NFS V4.1 Support

Need support for NVS V4.1
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Provide a changelog for Scale releases

Please provide a changelog identifying the APARs fixed in a Scale Mod, Release, or Version change
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Add IP port utilization to Storage Insights

Currently we can only monitor FC port utilization using SI so we're completely blind when it comes to ISCSI port utilization and need to contact our network team to monitor usage which delays incident resolution. It would be great to be able to mo...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Support BSD groups semantics

Customer is migrating from Isilon, which supports configuring the BSD group semantincs meaning that new files inherit the group id of the parent group. Some file systems on linux support the "grpid" or "bsdgroups" mount option to enable same seman...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

IBM SV data change rate integrated report

IBM SV (SVC or FS family) need to have an intgrated way with GUI or Cli to collect data change rate in a specific time window and interval to enable SGC to be easier and correctly sized. It will helps to be more pervasive in SGC diffusion and more...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

Alternative Archive Destination with Oracle

If, for any reason, the DB or Backup has had a problem und the archive destination is filled for 100% the DB get's in stuck.DB Administrator will choose an alternative archive destination.After Backup works again, it only backup the archive logs f...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

TDP for Database SQL

ISP Server V8.1.11ISP Client V8.1.9TDP for Database SQL 8.1.9 AlwaysOn DB configured on TDP for Database SQL with11 Instance (Active/Inactive) containing more than 70 SQL Database using MMC. Problem:When doing selective Restore (Active and Inactiv...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Customize visible Name for the Device in Browser-TAB

The customization of the visible Device-Name in the Browser-Header or Browser-Tab will be helpfull, if you have to manage multiple Devices. If you have to manage you will be able to identify the different Devices when you are able, to set the Devi...
4 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 0 Future consideration

SPP Allow Multiple IBM COS Accessors or Load Balancer for Offload to On-Prem IBM COS

Customer needs the ability to configure the "Copy" portion of their SLA Policy to allow either a load balancer or multiple endpoints to be configured.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

encrypted standard/archive copy to S3 like SP

If I want to save the data securely in the cloud - without extra encryption of the buckets by S3 Provider, then the vSnap encryption on the VSnap doesn’t help either. The bucket file is always stored unencrypted. We would like to implement a func...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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