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Spectrum Scale - automatic audit log files rotation

The File Audit Logging functionality from Spectrum Scale captures file operations on a file system and logs them to a retention enabled fileset.Depending on the number of operations at the Spectrum Scale file system, it can generate lots of audit ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

S3 target on DS8

Consolidation of infrastructure (storage) on to a single platform
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

IBM CSM API Should Show all DS8 Session/LSS/SSID In Hexadecimal to Correctly Reflect The Values on the Hardware

We recently encountered a discrepancy in our API reporting from CSM where the Session ID was not matching what is in the GUI (and on the actual DS8 hardware), and it turned out that from the CSM/web/sessions URI, all of the session/LSS/SSID values...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Is a defect

LSS Display capability in Internal Resources page per Storage Array

It would be nice to have the ability to report on LSS on a DS8K. It would be nice if we could report on LSS and the Device Type, getting the counts per model type with an LSS device quantity Total - perhaps with a Capacity Total by model and summary.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Future consideration

Retrules for databases and Exchange filespaces

Ability to create long term / ad-hoc achives from already backed-up data is critical to our customers. We can not afford of re-reading the same data under different nodename to store it under different retention policy. There is a need for retenti...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Windows server as virtual machine on KVM based hypervisor.

In order to be compliant with IBM to get support and to have more flexibility around Spectrum Protect, we need to be able to run Spectrum Protect server as a virtual machine on a KVM based hypervisor (RHEV/Proxmox VE/Native KVM etc...) with Window...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Disable selected Alerts and prevent daily messages.

We want the ability to disable 'recommended' Warning / Alerts from sending daily emails from selected events.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

SPPlus : restore VM to my cloud provider

In Spectrum Protect plus , it would be interesting to have the ability to restore a VM to a cloud provider. As we can restore to alternate location today, alternate location could be then IBM Cloud or Amazon or Azure so the VM is being restored an...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Delete orphaned entries in DEDUPSTATS

In Spectrum Protect there is a requirement to use the GENERATE DEDUPSTATS command to determine the deduplication performance on an individual node / filespace level. The DELETE DEDUPSTATS command is used to tidy up old entries. However, it will le...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

See current system time in Gui when NTP is set.

Would like to be able to see the current system time in Gui on the NTP Tab, even if we have the possibility to use svqueryclock in Cli. Will make PD easier when comparing the time in tasks and events.
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration