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The Protection summary screen shouldn't show the replica VMs

Spectrum Protect Plus "Protection Summary" screen shows our replica machines that replicated with Recover Point.This is a misleading situation. Both our machine count and the number of machines that are not backed up seem wrong.It needs to be fixed.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Tiring by occupancy

Add the ability to define tiring rule, that takes node occupancy into account.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Managment: SAP HANA (system) connectivity should support SSH keys

As of today SCDM needs "user/password" credentials for its SAP HANA (system) connectivity. As this a security risk (and not allowed at our company anymore) the product should support SSH keys as system credentials. Since SCDM already has this for ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Request to forcibly disconnect multiple TS7760s from the grid by command operation.

The customer is requested to be able to forcibly disconnect multiple TS7760s from the grid by command operation.
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

CSM estimated completion time via CSMCLI.

1. CSM estimated completion time via CSMCLI Of Flash Copy Command Hi, We would like to have a report generated with CSMCLI Command who will give the completion of the FlashCopy Ce can see dynamically the completion with GUI.But if we want to follo...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to alert if any and all encryption servers are not reachable

Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to alert if any and all encryption servers are not reachable. This would useful during production monitoring.
over 3 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

CDM integration with Power VMR-DR

Today CDM does not support integration with VIOS on AIX as it does with ESXi. VMR-DR integration on the power side of the house would allow for a complete package to be presented for customers on AIX looking to do Disaster Recovery.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect support for gluster filesystems

Spectrum Protect client should support the gluster filesystem.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Enable REST via commandline

REST API has to be enabled using Open Webbrowser, Login, and Check the "Enable REST" Checkbox.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

DMAPI session info truncated on non-session nodes

observed on Spectrum Scale 5.1.0 + 5.1.5 invoking dm_query_session on the session node returns session info as expected. However, invoking the same call on non-session nodes returns the first 8 bytes of session info only, followed by the NULL cha...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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