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Require HTTPS for Spectrum Protect Web Client

Currently only HTTP works when using the Backup-Archive Web Client. US Bancorp requires this communication to be transmitted over HTTPS due to Federal audit requirements. We know that the data is not sent in clear text, but the auditors don't, so ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

FlashSystem GUI + FCM + SGC --> NO PHYSICAL CAPACITY INFO

In a FS config + FCM drives, working with CSM ans SGC (SafeGuarded Copies).Each SGC reserve 2% of LOGICALcapacity of source volume. But there is not possible to view PHYSICAL CAPACITY information after FCM compression. Virtualize GUI do not show r...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Integrate 'Relabel Scratch' command with Fujitsu Eternus vJuke virtual libraries

Fujitsu Eternus VTLs are well known in several customer's ISP environments. Main difference to other VTLs is the ability to stack logical volumes on physical tapes in the backend.Data written to the VTL is stored in a tape volume cache (TVC) on vi...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Rentention Sets for SAP/ERP

Spectrum Protect retention sets are utilized to achieve longer data retention without the need to make further interactions with the host. This capability is available for file and 'VE' data. We need this to be extended for other use cases, and in...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Adjust DECOMMISION NODE command to show ALL the changes done by it

ISP server administrators will benefit from it by spending less time on collecting action evidences for ticketing systems. Currently the command DECOMMISSION NODE with WAIT=YES doesn't show all the changes that command is doing. Check the piece of...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Backport lsportstats to 8.3.1.x code stream

In the SVC 8.4 code SFP statistics have been made visible via the CLI lsportstats command. We would like to see this backported to the SVC 8.3.1.x code stream which is the current advised code stream by IBM.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

customer needs to be able to manage Spectrum Protect volumes not in defined within a storage pool.

A customer needs more information in the Operations Center to be able to manage volumes not part of a storage pool. Specifically:- volumes containing exported data.- volumes containing backupsets.- DB backup/DBSnapshot media.- volumes correlated t...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

TSM for VE 'Monthlies' 'Yearlies'

Multiple different schedules and retentions are not supported when using the TSM for VE vsphere plugin or web client (or generally). This means a customer must create separate servers in order to keep a 'monthly' set of data for a year, otherwise ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

The virgo log needs to be consistent with SPP server timezone.

The virgo log is written in UTC timezone, which is hard-code. SPP time zone is set as per SPP server location. When we analyze virgo log for any problem, it is difficult to corelate with time as SPP time zone is different. So instead of hardcoding...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Make the dashboard more focused on showing information and enabling actions at a per VM and application level

The product needs to be a lot more VM and application centric from a management perspective. What end users would like is backup information per VM and application in the dashboard, a list of VMs and applications showing when each VM and applicati...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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