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Cloud Support for Spectrum Archive

Today, Spectrum Archive supports local and remote tape copies. The ability to send a copy to a cloud, either onsite or offsite, would also be beneficial.
over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 5 Not under consideration

TSM Clean Frequency enhancement

Please allow a terabyte option in addition to gigabytes for the clean frequency for tape drives.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Define a launch window by SLA

The need is to be able to set an SLA time from which everything left in the queue in the SLA is canceled.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TS7700 Logical WORM KPMG certification

Allow to configure retention period in data class, so volumes mounted in this class inherit this retention period. During the retention period, volumes cannot be scratched, deleted, ejected or overwritten. In addition, do not allow to decrease the...
over 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Provide encryption support to M2 internal disks to allow failed disks' removal at very large bank

In case of a failed M2 disk in large bank or other information sensitive company, the lack of encryption support for internal disks prevents returning failed disks to IBM for repair because large banks command retaining all non encrypted disk in t...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Alert for Consistency Group status change

Product: Storage insight PROActor: users want to be alerted for GlobalMirror stoppedDescription: we want to have an alert for monitoring Global mirror status change. In details we want to be alerted when we a consistency group goes to stoppedstauts
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Multiple COPY backup types for TDP for SQL

Currently there is one database backup type for daily backups (full/differential) and one for copy backups. DBAs often require backups to be held for other retentions, and this currently can only be done by creating multiple TSM nodes. Additionall...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TS4500 access when LDAP enabled

TS4500 supports LDAP. It requires LDAP group with admin privileges to be created in Library as well as LDAP domain. After LDAP group creation and integrating access with LDAP the library is not accessible via local accounts. JPMC require both acce...
over 7 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Add deletfiles option in Archive in the New BA Web Client 3.0

Large Customer delegates a lot of Users as Self Service to use Backup and Archive Web Client to use Archive. They have a policy to delete files once archived files is completed.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Integrate Spectrum Archive into Spectrm Scale GUI

Integrate IBM Spectrum Archive monitoring into IBM Spectrum Scale GUI and mmhealth.IBM Spectrum Archive provide a Grafana Dashboard but would it be good to intregrate such graphs into Spectrum Scale GUI (migrate/recall, drive performance, etc) as ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

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