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Enhanced security for admin access to Protect

Administrative access to Spectrum Protect (including but not limited to the WebUI) has a weak security model.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Allow vendors to develop snapshot provider for *nix Spectrum Protect Snapshot

Allow PaaS providers to exploit Spectrum Protect Snapshot by providing a device adapter to interface SPS with with their platform's proprietary storage layer.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Add Support FlashCopy Backup and Clone Presets

The FlashCopy function in Spectrum Virtualize offers backup and clone functions that SCDM currently doesnt support it would be great to have the ability to create SLAs supporting FlashCopy backup and clone in SCDM to add to FlashCopy NoCopy and Fl...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Control with DFSMS Storage Group Awareness

Request for Thin Provisioning Monitoring Interface that can report based on DFSMS (Storage Group). Please refer to RFE 137862 for additional detail.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Data Manager reports should recognize GPFS & VMFS as a cluster

The report Data Manager > Reporting > TPC-wide Storage Space > File System Space > By cluster does not show GPFS clusters or VMware ESX clusters as a cluster. They are shown under By Computer. As a result, the file space in /VMFS (ESX ...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

Synchronize policy information to another SP server

There is a Spectrum Protect environment with 2 Spectrum Protect servers. Server A is the primary server to which the SP clients connect to, which stores alll SP client data in first place, and on which all SP client node information, associations ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP - Interactive Donut

SPP - Interactive Donut - drill down from the Manage Protection > Protection by Policy.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Allow grouping of statistics by DS8000 internal resources for performance reporting

Provide the ability to group and subset performance statistics for the DS8000 based on the internal configuration of the disk subsystem. Metrics which could be used for grouping and subsetting would be: - Rank statistics : device adapter, tier, DD...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

remote awareness of TPC-R sessions

When a storage device needs to be deleted from the standby server, the standby needs to be made active, and the device deleted, then returned to the standby state. The additional steps places risk on the TPC-R database. The standby database should...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

[Copy] Lack of integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

Lack of an integration between IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) using Pure Storage. Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption a supported combination of Pure, CDM and SP solution.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

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