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Support remote pair flashcopy on Global Mirror Primary devices.

Currently we have a GDPS Metro Mirror environment that is being expanded with LCP in a Metro Physical Airgap solution.So we have PPRC Metro Mirror between RS1 -> RS2 and Global Mirror between RS2 -> RS3. In our GDPS Metro Mirror environment ...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

SPP two-factor authentication

Due to several cyber attacks to many companies. Some SPP clients are requiring a two-factor authentication. Overall in SPP WEB UI and SPP WEB admin UI.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow guest access to an SMB share

With medical instruments and probably many other devices not always connected to an Active Directory domain due to aging operating systems on the instruments' consoles or instruments' vendors restrictions or limitations, it would be necessary for ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Reorg of the container files

Because we must delete 800.000.000 million orphaned chucks on two TSM servers there is coming many free storage in the container files but all the filesystems are 97% filled. If we can do a reorg then the filesystems can we schrink.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Check the GM subordinate even if there are no copyset in it.

Currently CSM only queries for copysets that are actively participating in a session. If we have a session with a subordinate with no more copysets on the subordinate, CSM doesn't check the state of the subordinate. Adding a check of the subordina...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Improve Retension Policies

Improve SPP retention policies.Make them similar to classic TSM. (1) Option to always keep last X copies - this means that if the backup fails to run, it does not expire your existing backups. We have been in a situation where SPP was down for 2 w...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP agent for file backups

Please develop an agent to backup files directly from the VM (over WinRM or SSH/SCP) instead of through disk snapshots.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

High availability support for vsnap

VSNAP and VADP proxy high availability (clustering ) support. We need to extend the clustering support already available for SPP server to VADP Proxies and Vsnap servers, in combination with HW storage sharing
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Add option to add notes and custom annotations to VMs to allow better visibility of backups for VM admins

Add option to add notes and custom annotations to VMs to allow better visibility of backups for VM admins You should be able to add something like the below as an example. Last Backup Completed Successfully - Yes/NoLast Backup Completed At - 01/01...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add backup storage reporting on TSM Policy Domain level to TSM Operation Center

Enhancing TSM Operation Center with of view of backup storage per Policy Domain. This would allow backup administrators to understand better their storage growth based on their organizational structure. Furthermore it supports the usage of TSM Pol...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

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