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Enhancment to replicate node commando to only replicate nodes in send or sendsync mode

I try to create setups without and errors or warnings from housekeeping scripts.I also try to work with opt-out mechanisms as much as possible for customers that agree to use that backup philosophy. When you build a two-way replicating Spectrum Pr...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Management interface bond (port-channel)

For environments that rely heavily on a working management interface (automation, flashcopy scripts) would benfit greatly with the ability to bond two of the ethernet ports for management. If common that the upstream switch can run a port-channel ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 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

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...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Opject Agent support for AIX

Text from following link:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.7/srv.admin/t_object_agent_client_aix.html An IBM Spectrum Protect object agent cannot run directly on an IBM AIX operating system. However, you can offload IBM Spectr...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add LTFS EE support to Ceph based Distributed File System

A lot of cold data in Ceph based DFS need to migrate to Tape. The existing solution is backup/archive with backup software or put data via S3 interface to S3 based deep archive solution which is very complicated,no automation and no competitive pr...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

Ability to limit io per user for gpfs fs for a node/server

Client need the ability to impose restriction on IO that a user can open on a compute server via cgroup or any other method. They currently have cpu and ram limit per user but users seem to overload io request that retards system responds.
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Monitoring fileset quota (block/files)

Customer want to monitor via SNMP all the alerts that the system can generate like:fileset quota block (soft/hard)fileset quota files (soft/hard)Storage Pool Metadata block/inodes Storage Poo Data block/inodesand all other event that the system is...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Ubuntu on s390x support for Spectrum Project Client

Originally requested in 2019 and was marked for future consideration, IBM support Ubuntu on s390x Linux on Z however does not provide a backup client for Spectrum on an IBM platform s390x Linux on Z.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Ansible modules for DS8000

Provide an ansible collection with modules to perform the equivalent of DSCLI using playbooks. ** Note the RFE webpage forced me to choose an operating system and z/OS was the only choice. This is not a z/OS operating system request
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release