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    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Full Copy

    By default backup jobs create the first copy as a full copy on thin volumes. Being a full copy, the 80% threshold set as a warning value is always exceeded, generating emails and alarm events. Is it possible to set by default the value to 0 (disab...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Massive initial load

    During the system configuration phase, it would be useful to be able to do the massive import of providers and identities (whether they are passwords or keyfiles). This would drastically reduce time spent to setup the environment.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Actions on multiple selected object

    If we have to hold/release several jobs we have to do it on each single job. Selecting all the jobs the only available action is "Delete", which is the most dangerous option. I think it can be very helpful for the day by day activity to enable al...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

    Add Fusion Backup & Restore in OpenShift Dedicated (OSD) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Platform Support Matrix

    IBM Fusion Software documentation normally adds separate entries/rows to the platform support matrix (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/fusion-software/2.9.x?topic=services-fusion-platform-support-matrix) for managed-OpenShift platforms. The current mat...
    9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    [Fusion Backup] Add resource check list at restore time

    When we execute a restore we can select if we want restore all PVs or just check a specific one. It would be great to add same functionality for resources so customer can select a specific ConfigMap or specific Secret instead of recovering all. If...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Copy Data Managment - support for Oracle ASM cluster

    Informations from customer about infrastructure and use case. "Oracle ASM HA, Grid Infrastructure ver. 19.7, BS database - cluster - 2 servers, Oracle Linux 7.9, kernel 4.14.35-2047.502.4.el7uek.x86_64, - ASM disk group, 21 volumes of 2 TiB, total...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    command line for the admin console gui for IBM Storage Copy Data Management software

    We would like to automate the backup of the Catalog Manager in the Backup Catalog . Currently we need to log into the gui and click backup daily. We might miss this over weekends and would be a big issue if we restore an old catalog. We have used ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Under review

    Option to overwrite resources when doing retore

    When doing a restore of resources, you have to previously delete the ones you want to restore. This is really complicated for customers and other backup SW allows "overwrite" including a tick on the restore process
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

    Automated Restore for Spectrum Protect family of products

    Spectrum Protect is lacking any functionality which can automatically verify backup copies, whether they have been created using the BA client, TDP agents or Spectrum Protect Plus. Since Cristie pulled support for SP4VE from their Recovery Simulat...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Create backupset from directory container stgpool

    Directory containers give much better performance compared to the "old" version of dedup, but it makes it impossible to create Backupsets (and export) which several of my customers are using to get an annual backup offsite
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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