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Change the unit of retention for snapshot from days to hours

I have a client that needs to do more frequent snapshots and retian them for hours instead of days.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

SNMP monitoring fileset quota (block/files)

Customer want to monitor via SNMP all the alerts that the system can generate like:fileset quota block (soft/hard)fileset quota files (soft/hard)Storage Pool Metadata block/inodes Storage Poo Data block/inodesand all other event that the system is...
4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Add export logs to IBM (call home) via REST API Endpoint.

With this customer could automated the Datacollection and the export to IBM Ecurep.
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

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...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under 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

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

Storage Scale GUI command line does not show when Expiration (Safe Guarded snapshot) is enabled

Client enabled the option "Allow Expiration" at the GUI. At the GUI panel, we see the Expiration column changed from False to True. However when checking in the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/lssnaprule command, it does not have the Expiration column, so i...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

avoid external ssh access to spp container pods for ISP Plus kubernetes backup

In release 10.1.6 of ISP Plus ssh access to the spp agent container pods is needed from outside the k8s cluster (ISPP Server needs this access).There are security concerns at a customer site due to this requirement.SPP server to spp agent pod comm...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Launch CLI from GUI

I have received multiple requests from my customers to add the ability to launch the FlashSystem CLI from the GUI like other IBM products. Please consider adding this simple change.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Include SNMPD in appliance

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