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Storage Scale GUI command line does not show when Expiration (Safe Guarded snapshot) is enabled

Client enabled the option "Allow Expiration" at the GUI. At the GUI panel, we see the Expiration column changed from False to True. However when checking in the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/lssnaprule command, it does not have the Expiration column, so i...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Differential alerts

Customer would like to receive not only static alerts (eg. data rate > 1 MB/sec) but also differential alerts (eg. data rate increased by more than 20% over the last week). They would like in particular to receive such alerts at consolidated le...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Hyperlink SP4C login from Defender landing page

Customers who are seeking to purchase an end to end data resiliency platform have also indicated a need to backup cloud workloads from the same pane of glass. Storage Protect for Cloud is the best SaaS cloud backup solution in the market and by me...
8 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

Object Lock / Immutability with SP/P with Hitachi Cloud Scale

In alignment with our Cyber Resiliency sales play many of our clients are looking at ways to utilise the assets they already have purchased to "sure up" their infrastructure. We know data management solutions are a target of internal and external ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus User Experience Enhancements

User enhancement requests for Spectrum Protect Plus Make the dashboard interactive i.e. ability to drill down into the protection summary, the unprotected summary, failed jobs and running jobs. Make the dashboard customisable. All data accessible ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Moving the TSM Server parameter DIRECTIO NO from a server-wide option into a device class specific parameter

The Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server will, by default, use non-buffered I/O bypassing the file system cache. By specifying the server option DIRECTIO NO within the dsmserv.opt, this behavior can be changed – means TSM is using the file system c...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

We need this to be MSP friendly to allow multi tenanted view of our customers

We are an MSP and it would be a good way to monitor our customers environments
11 months ago in IBM Storage Data Management Service (DMS) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Control Storage Insights to have multiple data collection targets for a single Spectrum Scale Environment

Currently Spectrum Control Storage Insights, can only target one Spectrum Scale node for data collection.
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect for Databases SQL in Linux

We need us to implement Backup/Restore Spectrum Protect for Databases SQL in Linux Servers
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Future consideration

RENAME DEVCLASS

We have to rename some tape based DEVICE CLASSES for organizational reasons.Unfortunately, there is no RENAME DEVCLASS command defined. The DEVICE CLASSES mentioned have storage pools with large amounts of archive data (many PB)with expiration tim...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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