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    Glacier like Object Storage teiring in Tape. With compatibility with S3 API/Policies

    A growing trend I ha e noticed in my domain is data ownership and residency. However, costs exponentially rise as data has grown due to a lack of understanding of what data is being stored (partially due o GDPR which protects against data being vi...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

    TSM Audit library should not require setting the library "offline"

    TSM Library Manager often loses information about the location of a cartridge in the library.Most of all cases happen after a Drive-, or Robot-mechanics failure.TSM Librarymanager then demands an "Audit Library".To do that "audit", we need to stop...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Future consideration

    Restore more than 1 VM at the time with the tdpve web gui

    Restore Multiple VMS at ones from the web Gui from the same job ibm spectrum protect virtual environments
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Customize At Risk intervals to reflect real environment

    In order to have the Operations Center reflect correctly the risk status of Spectrum Protect nodes we should be able to inform accuratedly when the backups really run. Some clients, for instance, have nodes that run backups only on weekdays, so th...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

    parallel session when using node replication from tape

    Need support for parallel session when using node replication from tape.When for example run a RMAN Backup with 4 session to tape, we can replicate the data with 4 sessions over 4 tape and 4 drives to other side. With Node Replication only one ses...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Possibility to deploy/update Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center

    Update of Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center is not possible.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Open Spectrum protect S3 agent for use by BRMS (iSeries)

    The intent is to open up the S3 Agent for use by entities other than Spectrum Protect Plus. Target for this request is iSeries BRMS which is currently using S3 to send backup data to cloud.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    IBM CDM should be able to work with more than one Network Card to perform backup and restore operations

    Customer has hosts and storage subsystems placed in distinct networks. We configured a second NIC in the CDM server but once this interface comes UP, all scheduled backup fails, the reason is that they can't find the target hosts, I wonder some ro...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Treeview of copies

    Why don't you add a graphical view of the copies ? It is not easy manage the copies without having a global view of source disks and related copies. Something similar to the attached picture or by exploring a treeview
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Backup on AIX nodes managed by PowerHA

    The High Availability configuration of Power AIX systems is made up of two or more real nodes to which volumes and IP addresses are associated and then managed by PowerHA. In this configuration there are therefore at least three types of volumes:...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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