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SLA schedules are removed to early from ISPP

When the last VM or Database is removed from a SLA policy ISPP will also remove the complete schedule for this SLA.Unfortunately this also includes all post processes like replication or archiving, which means the backup data will not be copied to...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

NFS Export: Show connected clients

Tool that will list the clients that are connected to *a particular NFS (CES) export*
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Support for cp4d service protection backups using fusion have capability to be replicated from one s3 location to another.

I have been informed that in order to restore a cp4d cluster to a DR site, we would need to have available the existing s3 backup storage location, as the service protection backups do not support being replicated from one s3 backup location to an...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

S3 Object Agent, Slow Metadata Retrieval

When querying metadata from the S3 object agent, e.g. requests against filesystem structure, dir list, deleting expired data/snapshots, response time is very slow (50min+). This causes applications (e.g. ElasticSearch) which use the API to throw e...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Global Exclude List

We are after a Global Exclude list of VMs that we can use to exclude VMs across ALL SLA Policies in SPP
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM operation center reporting issue with DB size of TSM instances in GPFS cluster

TSM DB size was wrongly reported in operations center for instances configured in same GPFS cluster. all instances are reporting GPFS clustered file system size Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center 7.1.4
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Enhance mmfindinode Performance and Provide SDK API for Path Query by Inode

This RFE requests enhancements to the mmfindinode utility in the GPFS/Spectrum Scale filesystem to significantly improve its performance. Additionally, it proposes the development of an SDK API that allows querying file paths based on inode number...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support for ROCKY Linux

Client is requesting ROCKY Linux support for their client nodes.
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Include "date" command to report system-date on IBM Storage Virtualize products . . .

During automation, lot of times system date needs to be retrieved from storage system. Currently one has to run undocumented "svqueryclock" command. Would be better if we can provide/support "date" command (or some one word variance of it) to offi...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

command to report version

This idea is specifically CLI related. Currently one has to run "lssystem | grep -i code_ " to get the code level running on IBM Storage Virtualize products. Most other products provide "version" or "ver" or some single word variation to report ve...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration