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Ability to install Vintela on SPP + VSNAP servers for user access

The customer would like to have the ability to install Vintela on the SPP and VSNAP servers in their environment. This is to grant access to the team that supports SPP without having to give out the superuser or create a local account for each per...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Activity report and Security Posture Report grouped by Business

Would be good to have customizable reports on Defender to have the ability to build custom reports . The prime use case I see (customer asked for) is to be able to provide a report for a given business application which woud be composed of VMs and...
about 1 year ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

document privateSubnetOverride and make it switchable without shutting doen the whole cluster

This helps in adding (additional) high performance networks to existing clusters
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow custom configuration of ciphers used by a Spectrum Protect server for TLS connections

Spectrum Protect servers use TLS for incoming client and administrative sessions over the netowrk. An incoming TLS connection is offered a number of ciphers to use for the TLS connection by the Spectrum Protect server. Whilst this list of ciphers ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Assignments panel needs to enhanced to display the ip address or WWN or switch name or at least the system UUID

We also are unable to use Assignments to spread the workload because all the switches are listed with their Chassis Name, and we have a lot of switches of the same kind so its impossible to differentiate between which device is located where. Woul...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Possibility to create a synthetic backup full in SPP with OSSM and vSnap at any time

For SLA reasons (law or company regulations) it is necessary that my BASE backup is NEVER older than 30 days!
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

temp. autologout customization in the SPP GUI

When pulling support logs in larger environments, the default autologout in the spp gui of currently 30min is exceeded. however, the time to create the log collection is much longer than 30min. this prevents the forwarding to support cases. a way ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Error handling for failed node replication - ANR1893E and ANR3824W

Since ISP 8.1.14 we always see this error messages in the log - and monitoring system - for node replication, because some files are skipped. The reason for the skipped files is, that database log backups always occur during the replication. This ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Management Class in Library Request Command LVOL

There is no way to see the management class for a specific volume with the Library Request Command LVOL. You will get a lot of information, but there are no SMS constructs in the output. In the MI you will find it via Volume Details, but there is ...
3 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Planned for future release

Improve alerting when "Call home using Cloud Services” randomly stops working

We have noticed that “Call home using Cloud Services” randomly stops working our 9500 arrays causing gaps in our performance data. This has happened before on our arrays and there is no alerting that tells us, either on the array, or within Storag...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review