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To pull graphical representing reports from operation center

Add a feature to pull reports in form of bar/pie, graphical representing reports from operation Centre.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Add application aware backup and restore for Guardiaum Insights application

Client is running Guardium Insights in their OCP cluster, and are challenged with current data protection process, and need an enterprise level, automated application aware Backup & Restore solution for this environment.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

The file cataloging function does not support dynamic disks

Need to have a file cataloging function that support dynamic disk.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Session recovery via query

CSM is currently designed to stop monitoring underlying replication in an event where certain types of communication failures occur with a subsystem (say after panic/warmstart). It's designed this way to not inadvertently monitor relationships tha...
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect OSSM support for SPP on Windows platform

We have many customers using SP server on Windows and running SPP in Hyper-V on top of it, we want to get rid of SPP vSnap but we can't do it when using SP server on Windows. And we can't deploy SP on Linux with SPP in KVM because SPP in KVM is no...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

Enhancements to MI TS7700 dual control function

When dual control is enabled, only user modification (for example password) is requested an approval. So it is currently possible to delete all users (admintrator, operator ...) without double control. For security reasons, would it be possible to...
about 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

mmdf needs an option to not reach out to all remote clients

On our very large environment, mmdf will take hours to run. This is apparently because the ESS cluster will reach out to our thousands of remote clients to verify accuracy of its statistics. Worse the entire system slows down while this is occurri...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Support for ROCE Tape drives in ISP

Hello, If ISP would support ROCE tape drives like TS1155/TS1160 this would deliver following advantages:- ISP could run in a VM and support Tape which is currently not possible with FC Tape drives due to Fibrechannel limitations. - ROCE attached t...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Provide auth and security status of connections via standard mm commands

It would useful to have the auth and security status of connections/mounts via standard supported mm commands (mmdiag|mmlsmount).
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Thresholds for security notifications

The security notifications introduced in v8.1.5 for ransomware protection can't be tuned and are usually inadequate for volatile systems. After every client backup session, statistics are analyzed for signs of a ransomware infection (large increas...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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