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add support for PowerHA AIX cluster configuration for File system backup and restore

DCU (Customer) did a CDM snapshot across the 2 AIX servers. Then a situation came up where they had a need to do a restore and it failed with the exception “com.catalogic.ecx.ibmsvcprovider.exception.IBMSVCExecCommandException: CMMVC9071E: Cannot ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

TS7760T with a problematic PVOL requires SSR intervention to go ROR. Request is to change this behavior to mitigate interve

The problem to be discussed:a) Reclaim of a non-exported, not-properly-ejected, physically damaged tape should have been easier to do in a multi-cluster grid, in the scenario DTNA experienced.b) Reclaim of offsite tapes should not have been impact...
about 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Address weak security keystore in Spectrum Protect Plus

Security enhancement, could possibly be considered a flaw in current security postures of the Product. When deploying a VADP proxy, and the existing server to have the proxy installed on is in "FIPS" mode the following message is produced, prevent...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

support of AzureStack in Spectrum Protect Plus

we want to move our backups to cloud as 'second backup'. Our cloud provider offers AzureStack /pleAzureStack/, but in menu of Spectrum Protect plus is only Azure. Could you add support of AzureStack in some of near updates?
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Scale compatibility

Customer would like to avoid having to use SKIPACLUPDATECHECK And UPDATECTIME attributes in Spectrum Protect when backing up Spectrum Scale data
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

SCDM should not do a df on every datafile during an Oracle Backup

During an Oracle Backup job, the agent code does a df on every single datafile to see what filesystem it resides on to determine which luns to snapshot. On a large database with many datafiles (1000s) this takes a long time. It would be much more ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Capability to trigger an event when alert trigger

Capability to trigger an event when alert trigger. Today user can define alert in SI and can get notification via e-mail Then user need to use other external tool to automatically trigger a next action to alleviate the issue. This RFE is to have t...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Event log enhancements

Enhanced monitor of internal process and better detail on issues. Lack of reporting on critical internal components hinders determination of issues and recovery.
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC - Cron Backup control over scheduling

SVC Cron backup runs at the same time but collides with other workload processes. Would like to be able to update the backup to a better time frame within out envrionment to reduce impact and ensure backup failures do not occur as we have seem
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

TS7700 - Validate export media

Validation of data (logical volume) in the physical media.
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration