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Allow the ability to stop a FlashCopy session (Storage Virtualize Family)

When managing FlashCopy sessions (not volume group based) from CSM, the only available commands for any given FC session are: Discover Start Flash Restore Terminate surprisingly, the ability of stopping a session is missing. You can terminate it, ...
6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under 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.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Archive/Retrieve in IBM Spectrum Protect V8.1.7 and above Secure Web GUI

We plan to upgrade IBM Spectrum Protect server code and client code to 8.1.7 and above. During functional test, we found that the new secure webclient is missing Archive/Retrieve function. As we have many users to use the traditional web client to...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus add Zero Trust Compliance to match Spectrum Protect Implementation

We are looking for Dual admin execution for removal of backup data. Similar to Spectrum Protect.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

CSM certificate processing

We have just upgraded CSM from 6.2.0 to 6.2.7 and during that upgrade we found that for the host connections none of them would connect due to a TLS handshake issue (case TS003534863 was opened). The issue was that we needed to import the lpars ce...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 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...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Simplified descOnly support on virtual quorum node

We should support using VM internal partition for descOnly NSD. Should not require the complexity of raw device mapping for this simple functionality, that also doesn't have any risk of data loss. I asked on the internal General Parallel File Syst...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

spectrum Protect Plus reports is missing

Requests to add to the report's data of who performed the recovery.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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

Support for vCenter 6.7 U1

Support for vCenter 6.7 U1
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

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