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Allow ISF SW version licensing based on TB instead of VPCs for small setups

We are facing problems on the pricing of ISF based on VPCs for small setups as they only need a range of 10-20TB . When doing the VPC pricing is really hard to sell the product at this stage as customer are not needing a high capacity
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future 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

zstd compression & dictionary support

If zstd support is added to the product it would be very interesting to allow for a few dictionaries to be used to improve (de)compression speed and compression ratio. This is ideal in situations where ILM policies can be written to target either ...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add performance statistics for IP Ports for iSCSI/Host workload

Storage Insights has good performance reporting capabilities for individual fibre channel ports, but there currently is no capability to look at the performance of IP ports that are performing host workloads (iSCSI/RDMA/NVMe). With the wide adapti...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 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...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Enabling versioning and object lock on buckets in GUI

S3 Object Lock with COS is only supported for buckets (containers). The GUI to administer storage accounts, to generate S3 access keys and to create buckets does not allow setting of versioning and/or object lock. Those need to be enabled via an e...
4 months ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

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

Support for restoring concurrent vg

There are some insignificant errors during OS restore with concurrent vg via NIM Resource Boot. “0516-1305 chvg: This command is not allowed while volume group sapbinvg is concurrent capable”“0516-1300 chpv: -h option is not allowed for hdisk3 bec...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Is a defect

Enhancements to the Operations Center reporting

The company is building executive reports using Spectrum Protect Operations Center. They have over 6000 nodes doing backups in 19 Spectrum Protect servers and management would like to have a view of some statistics for the whole environment. Today...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

The ability to see snapshot size in WebUI

To give a quick overview of the change rate in a file set and of course see the size of the snapshot
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration