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Check and Validate data on Export media

There is a government regulation for checking information on external physical tapes. External tape information can now only be checked on a single and clean cluster that is not in the grid and we can't do any data validation on exported media.
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Send an SNMP trap when an open problem is fixed, for SNMP server to clean/drop the alert.

Send SNMP traps when open problems are fixed so clients can automate the cleanup of open issues on their monitoring tools.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Increase the maximum number of independent filesets per filesystem

Currently we are hovering under 1000 independent file sets within the user file system. Even taking into account file sets that are removed when users leave site it is very possible that we will hit the limit within a year.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Activities history (audits).

Hallo As we see, practically, there is no user (admin) activity logs in the SPP. It is not possible for example, to track, who and when apply or remove SLA from VM or application. It would be nice to have activities list for different operations, ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Include SNMPD in appliance

Please add snmpd module to the appliance.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Missing WEB-client in ISP 8.1.2 and later

We updated one of out ISP-Servers (AIX) to Version 8.1.3 a few days ago. After having finished that I also updated one Windows Agent to BA-Version 8.1.2 (file Server). Everything is working fine except the fact, that the WEB-Client is no longer su...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

add support for other KMIP server type

Today, only SKLM is supported to encrypt tapes. To simplify infrastructure, we would concentrate our KMIP requests to only one type of server. So our request is to have support for other servers.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Planned for future release

SI Should Include FC Ports Current Speed as a Column

SI should include the Current Speed for FC Ports in the table. The table currently only lists the maximum possible speed of a port. The CurrentSpeed of the port is available from lsioport -metrics
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

DS8XXXX Display Current Speed for Fibre Channel Ports As Well As Maximum Speed

I would request that the DS8 CLI and GUI be improved so that the current operating speed of a Fibre Channel Port will be displayed in: 1) lsioport output2) On a new column on the the Settings > Network > Fibre Channel Ports page.3) When hove...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

Support for the Domino client beyond V7.1 EOS (12/31/2021)

The Domino client is still on version 7.1 and will get out of support on 12/31/2021. Even if there is no further development planned, there should be support available for customers using Domino.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

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