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Seamlessy convert subtree into (independent) fileset

add a command to convert a subtree to an independent fileset seamlessly (without interrupting access for users) and - as a bonus - vice-versa
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

GUI snapshot deletion from oldest to newest

Due to inode manipulation, it is a best practice and less effort to the GPFS to delete the oldest snapshot first. However, when doing the snapshot deletion manually, in the client using the GUI, it should also order it from oldest to newest.This w...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Re-seeding of backups from secondary to primary vSnap

SPP doesn't support re-seeding of backups from secondary to primary vSnap in the event of primary vSnap pool corruption/data loss. A full baseline backup is initiated if backups pointed to secondary or to a new built primary vSnap.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Improve the security for S3 buckets & SPP including support for SAML authentication.

Currently many tools that implement SSO (Single Sign-on) allow the use of SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) technology to raise the level of security and automate authentication with various tools. SAML is a standardized way of telling ext...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable individual throttling for Replication and Cloud copy jobs. Also add support for Internet Proxy for Cloud offloads.

We use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus offload (copy) to Cloud feature in addition to Replication (another copy) to a IBM Spectrum Protect (classic) repository server for a subsequent tape backup. Due to a huge volume of data already being backed up by ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Add media verification result to dataCartridges RestAPI endpoint

All clients using media verification would benefit from the result being provided in the RestAPI output. Today the result can only be displayed on a per cartridge basis in the GUI. This is not a practible audit trail.
9 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Functionality already exists

Rolling upgrades of space management client.

When upgrading the space management client, event if there are multiple HSM nodes, it is required to disable HSM globally while space management and backup-archive clients and API are removed and reinstalled on all nodes. For clusters with multipl...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

Add RESTful query for AoS enabled/disabled status

Being able to query this via RESTful API would allow us to set up automated checks to verify that AoS is the desired state across our many clusters. For security it is preferred that AOS is default disabled and only enabled when there is a valid c...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag

Prospect requests a report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect KMIP support for encryption

Basically requesting SP products compatibility with KMIP when using Spectrum Protect products built-in encryption capabilities.We are seeing encryption demands more and more every day and most of time customers want to have a unified encryption ke...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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