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IM SPectrum Protect support for expired data report

URGENT Requirement : Nedbank, in South Africa, are a large consumer of Spectrum Protect ans many other IBM products and are an ELA customer.. They urgently require assistance with an enhancement for them to be able to see when files were expired/d...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

CDM compatibility with RHEL8 for SAP HANA -

One of the largest customer in ANZ for SAP HANA on Power is running HANA 2.0 over RHEL 8 and want to use Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) v 2.2.12 As per the current compatibility information
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

CDM - request to not wait for the Flashcopy to complete copying before ending the job in the storage controller

- During restore the FC "volume snap" is currently mounted successfully via CDM- but no access is possible for an application e.g. VMware. - CDM waits for R/W operations until the complete FC is restored. Thus no immediate restore + use with CDM i...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data management duplicate job option

Customer would like the ability in the jobs tab.The ability to right click a job and to duplicate.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

S3 Object Agent: Allow non ISPP application the use of "coldpool"

In the actual release of Spectrum Protect (8.1.12) the use of the "coldpool" in a Object Domain of Spectrum Protect is limited to the archive feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.External S3 clients are can only use a directory container pool as a...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect/TSM NDMP Support for Fujitsu ETERNUS AX/HX series

We would like to see the ETERNUS AX/HX series added to the list of supported devices so that we can backup the system using Spectrum Protect/TSM and NDMP. https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/storage/all-flash-arrays/ax.htmlhttps://ww...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Vmware Backup Failure ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the datamover on all platforms.

Vmware Backup Failure ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the datamover on all platforms. ANE4174E Full VM backup of VMware Virtual Machine 'vmname' failed with RC=rc mode=full_or_incr, target node name='target_node_name', data ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Support for Azure Blob Immutable Storage

Cyber Resiliency of backup data using immutable storage needs to be possible using Azure Blob Immutable Storage, both in Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, as both products are capable of storing data in Azure Blob storage.ICOS immutable ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance Backup

Customers are migrating SQL databases to Azure, running them either as Azure SQL Databases or Azure SQL Managed Instances. There is no IBM documentation which acknowledges whether any of the Spectrum Protect products support backup of SQL PaaS in ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Enhanced security for admin access to Protect

Administrative access to Spectrum Protect (including but not limited to the WebUI) has a weak security model.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration