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Central gui for agents

New GUI that you can install on a machine and then use to add all your backup agents, and where you can centrally manage backup/options/restore, and maybe even read log files.
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

New client/API interface

Make a new client interface for data communication on SP-server. Which can support new functionality and to which ALL new clients will use. Clients can then have: * Auto upgrade clients, option in server and node* Better agent, functionality* And ...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Add ability to extend the expiration date/time of a stand alone snapshot, possibly by adding option to chsnapshot command

We create snapshots of single volumes that are not part of a volume group and not associated with a snapshot policy. Here is an example: addsnapshot -volumes my_volume1 -ignorelegacy -retentiondays 3 Today, if we need to keep the snapshot beyond t...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

gpfs support mount fileset or directory

I hope that GPFS (General Parallel File System) supports mounting filesets or directories. Since each fileset or directory is used by different individuals, if mounting of filesets and directories is supported, it would achieve the effect of data ...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

support multi-arch payload to add alt arch worker nodes to HCI OCP cluster

Customers who want to leverage unique capabilities of alternative architecture platforms supported by OCP such as LinuxOne and IBM POWER want to add these alt arch worker nodes to their x86 HCI OCP cluster. Pre-req step on x86 cluster: https://doc...
7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Verify Management Class Contraints on Node Migration

When moving/migrating a TSM node from one TSM domain to another, and in the target TSM domain the management class used in the source does not exist in its policiy definitions, the default management class is used. The fall back to the default man...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Restore more than 1 VM at the time with the tdpve web gui

Restore Multiple VMS at ones from the web Gui from the same job ibm spectrum protect virtual environments
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

AOS Control in the TS7700 MI

Please make the AOS Stop/Start/Restart Controls available in the TS7700 MI. This should be much like it is in the DS8K GUI.
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Future consideration

non-root users access behaviour with version SP 8

Customer needs for SP version 8 to allow "other users" (non-root users and not "authorized users" for SP point of view) to use dsmc in order to restore their files The requirement is to continue with behaviour as per TSM 7.16 (https://www.ibm.com/...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Ability to change NSD names

We would like the ability to change the name of existing NSDs. This change could be done while entire GPFS NSD Server Cluster is down, similar to when you change the NSD ServerList.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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