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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

Enhanced RBAC with command specific granularity

Implement enhanced RBAC policy configuration based on a per command configuration policy. We want to specify per defined adminitrator which actions/commands can be executed. Command approval as implemented in the latest versions is to limited
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Add (Tape) Media livecycle

Add the ability to define a livecycle of a media. This lifecycle should contain a frequency data needs to be moved to a other media and a time a media needs do be disposed. By example, we need to define all tapes of a device class have to be copie...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support for 3rd party software installation for monitoring/automation software

ISP+ Produkt support is needed for the OVA and RHEL deployment, to install 3rd Party monitoring and automation software at the ISPP vSnap and ISPP operatingsystem layer. The ISP+ Bluprint documentation explicitly dismiss the installation for 3rd p...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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

Protect STGPool type=local mounts tape before checking if data to be copied available

TSM Server protect STGPool mounts Carts without any payload.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

VMware VM I/O Performance data should be available

Today TPC/VSC offers agentless integration with VMware ESX, however no performance data, other than the SAN volumes or ports that the ESX server is using are recorded. I would like to see TPC record basic virtual machine I/O performance data for V...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 5 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...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

To enable option within SPP for setting multipe bandwidth throttle limits

At the moment, SPP has the option only to set single throttle limit for replication & copy operations, but will it be better to allow the option to have multiple bandwidths throttling limits, during varied time schedules. Example as below: Bus...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration