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Allow VDI timeout to be user controlled (SP for MSSQL, legacy backups)

When using Spectrum Protect's data protection for MSSQL (legacy backups), there is a hardcoded timeout limit for the TDP to wait for the availability of the VDI. Currently this is set to 60 seconds, and can only be observed by tracing the TDP oper...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

GUI should indicate if TS7700 is in 'skip' mode

We had a long VTS outage during which time errors were not being reported due to the VTS being in 'skip' mode. We would like some visible notification of the VTS being in 'skip' mode or health status screen that would show all the current componen...
about 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Improve SPP handling of ICOS retention Vaults

IBM SPP handling of IBM COS Retention Vaults does not guarantee protection of all objects referred in full backups. Offloading or copying to IBM COS retention vaults is done to offer "Cyber Resiliency" for a certain amount of defined time, for exa...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

RestAPI to be able to set priority verification for a tape volume for Media Verification.

Requestion the ability to set priority verification on a tape volume via the Rest API.
about 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Storing File Permission and ACL on LTFS

Because of our security requirement we want to store the file and acl permissions, owner and group info already for the files that are migrated to tape with spectrum archive.
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

Oracle ACFS Support for Copy Data Management

Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) is evaluating CDM v2.2.9 for Oracle. SQL has passed the eval. Oracle is running ACFS as the standard at NFCU. Looking for CDM support for ACFS
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Show GiB utilization on TS7700 MI Media Categories panel

A need to show GiB utilization on TS7700 MI Media Categories panel by category will be very helpful and enhance the TS7700 MI usability.
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Future consideration

Ability to import OVL into ESX host without vCenter

In previous versions with the CentOS based OVL it was possible to import the SPP OVL into an ESX host running without vCenter. For the latest 10.1.11, RedHat based OVL this function is not working.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CSM - add 'if then' functionality to a scheduled task

Client wants a scheduled task to be able to determine the active host and issue commands to the active host
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Confusing status message 'mmlspdisk'

My Client submits the following:After carrier release the status is even more confusing [DIARSS root@ems1-xcat ~]# mmlspdisk all --not-okpdisk: replacementPriority = 6.77 name = "e1d2s02" device = "//essio32.ib.rsshpc1/dev/sdpe(notEnabled/closed),...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration