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    Can we have the ability to schedule a custom report to run on a particular date each month in the OC reports Module

    If you have special reports that you only want to run on the first of the month for example, that's not possible right now, you have to run them daily which is wasteful . For example , I may want to show the restores run each month to show audit t...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Submitted

    Defender Data Protect support for OpenStack

    Defender Data Protect currently lacks support for backup and restore of OpenStack environments that are commonly in use with many MSPs and large clients and Defender Data Protect needs to provide native backup/restore capabilities for this environ...
    over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Auto-Resume or Failover Across AFM Nodes

    Summary: Ensure prefetch requests survive AFM node failures via auto-resume or failover. Description: Currently, when an AFM node goes down, in-flight or queued prefetch requests assigned to that node fail and require manual retry. This creates un...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Fileset Quota Exceeded — Prefetch Requests Stuck Indefinitely

    Summary: Prevent prefetch operations from hanging when quota is exceeded. Description: When a fileset quota is exceeded: Prefetch requests neither fail nor retry Requests remain stuck indefinitely, requiring manual intervention This leads to...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Is a defect

    AFM: Enhance afmconfig map to allow nfs server stacking

    Even with nconnect=16 enabled, the HDFS NFS Gateway caps out at roughly 500 MB/s. This creates a significant waste on modern hardware, leaving high-speed network interface cards (NICs) severely underutilized. To alleviate this waste, introduce two...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    Storage Protect client and possibly server Linux on ARM (ampere computing)

    We are evaluation running more workloads on ampere computing (containers but also std vms)I would like to use storage protect client for backup/archiving as step1 and also interested in the serverside if We cant run AIX or Linux on power then the ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    Support for Diamondback 2drives configuration for PoC

    Since price can sometimes be a barrier for our clients when purchasing PoC environment, we would like to have a system that allows for a 2drives configuration only for PoC.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Future consideration

    IBM Redbooks for IBM Spectrum Protect / IBM SpectrumProtect Plus

    There are no longer IBM Redbooks for this product available. The education budget was shrinked and the Admin Guide was removed. Where should customers get information how to work with this product
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Storage pool option migration by age required

    Because of the way the SP server is selecting data eligible for migration, new data may be migrated out from DISK to FILE or from FILE to 3592, while old data remains on DISK/ FILE forever. We found data in a FILE storage pool which was more than ...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Add entry to a vm's filespace that will indicate its state

    We monitor current vmware backup by checking filespaces for last backup date. When that date is no longer updated for a few days, we record an event (an error) and someone must check why it is longer being back'ed up. Several reasons for this exis...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

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