IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Backup of Cloud Apps

    More and more applications are available online in the cloud such Exchange Online, SharePoint online, Dropbox and OneDrive Business.This areas do many think it's including backup, but the backup is limited and not even close to many customers SLAs...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    WORM directive for Directory Container Pool with Spectrum Scale immutable fileset

    Specify WORM at Spectrum Protect level when writing to a Directory container pool when using Spectrum Scale immutability function on the fileset so Backups can be compliant with a series of security needs.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    this applies to Spectrum CDM: Show Jobs IDs and SLA Policies IDs in CDM GUI

    Client remark: When a user defines in Spectrum CDM GUI a new backup or restore job, and also when a user defines a new "SLA Policy", a unique ID is assigned to the job and a unique ID is assigned to the SLA Policy. Both IDs are used @ storage subs...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Future consideration

    Need complete version information in GUI question mark info

    When using the GUI the granularity of the version info only displays 2.0.4, it does not include the build version or forth element of version number (2.0.4.1). Right now only administrators can identify the full version installed via the command p...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration

    Query Table Columns selection not sorted

    When working in Query Builder we found that the "Table Columns" selection list was sorted in order it was added to Spectrum Discover, not alphabetically sorted, this makes finding the desire column to select.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

    Canceling sessions by name

    Running sessions can be cancelled only by session id. .Please add a funcionality to cancel all sessions from one node with a single command. Further: Please add a option to cancel all sessions and prevent reopening of sessions by a node. Thank you...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Storing unknown tags returned by applications for review and addition after a policy is completed.

    Currently, any tags you wish to extract using a deep-inspect policy must be defined in spectrum discover before you create the policy. In the development of an application for extracting technical metadata from a range of file types, we are met wi...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

    Reduce ffdc ALL output size to always stay under 100GB

    Disk space on the root filesystem in Spectrum Discover can be very limited, and when building support logs package for IBM support we need to ensure that the resulting log package is small enough to fit on disk, small enough to transfer off of the...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under 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.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    IBM Spectrum protect support for Huawei cloud

    Currently in IBM reference, spectrum protect only support the following list of cloud object storage https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22000915.There are huawei cloud customer that wanted to see that they want to use spectrum prote...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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