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In clustered (HA) environments, Spectrum Protect should support installing interim fixes without downtime

We are using Spectrum Product for Data Retention in a document centric application step, that serves access to contract statements over the web in an always on environment. Maintenance (major version or scheduled FP upgrade) is expected to be deli...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

ADHOC Backend TB License Measurement (audit license with command instead of OC)

- The Backend TB Licenseing will be measured by SUR Occupancy and SUR Retention Occupancy every 7 days after startup of Spectrum protect Server from OC and shown in report as backend license value.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Ability to modify retention of individual VMs along with their historical data

Customer states that they are unable to extend/change the retention period for a VM along with the historical backup data if requested by groups within their environment without changing the setting for the entire SLA. This is not viable as it res...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Restore SQL to the same SQL Server with another name

Customer wants to restore a DB to the same SQL system with a new name. This is only possible when defining a different data path. The restore works fine but the name of the data- and logfile will be the same as the original files. example: We try ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enforce stricter controls for config changes/limits on VTS TS7700 Hardware

The IBM TS7700 hardware allows changes in the configuration/limits which could lead to a complete lockdown on the front-end, e.g. when increasing the premigration queue far above the PMTHLVL. This status, in particular, cannot be changed nor the q...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Using an external Key Management System for ISP Client encrytion

At the moment there is no possibility to connect an external key management system for the ISP client encryption. The key is either generated automatically by the ISP server or has to be entered manually. We need a posibility to connect the ISP Cl...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Archive feature for S3 compatible devices

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus supports Amazon S3 Glacier to archive backup data.But for S3 compatible devices it only supports standard object storage buckets not archive.https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/does-ibm-spectrum-protect-plus-support-s3-comp...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Port time blocked percentage metric

Request to get the metric "Port time blocked percentage" added into Storage Insights available metrics to monitor. This metric is a calculated value available in regular iostats and L3/dev indicate this value is calculated as :Time Blocked Percent...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

GUI Audit Log Improvements

Streamline GUI Audit logging. It's a little noisy which makes it a challenge to seek out legitimate events. There are also basic critical events/actions that should be included which appear to be missing.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

To fix the the Container storagepool mismatch utilization issue

Protect: IBM Spectrum Protect (Server)Environment: Banking Issue statement: Backups started failing with 'out of space' issue even-though the Container stgpool utilization was just showing 61%. When checked from 'show sdpool' we could see there wa...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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