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Do not trigger a new base backup if the site associated with the SLA policy is changed

Currently if you alter the target site in an SLA policy it will trigger a new base backup. This behaviour should be adjusted so that by default it does not trigger a new base backup.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

add SVC log message when volume mirror copies run out-of-sync

Please add an informational log message to SVC when volume copies 0 and 1 get out-of-sync. Despite the two policies that can be set with the 'mirrorwritepriority' option it would be very helpful to notice problems in the back-end when volume copie...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

SP move data out of CLOUD containers

Once TSM/SP data ends up in a CLOUD pool, there is no way to every move it anywhere else. We should be able to move data out of a cloud pool. MOVE NODADATA might be relevant, but would only work if you could specify source and destination pools. T...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Select datastore per VMDK during restore

When performing a restore it should be possible to select destination datastore for each VMDK-file.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Option to overwrite resources when doing retore

When doing a restore of resources, you have to previously delete the ones you want to restore. This is really complicated for customers and other backup SW allows "overwrite" including a tick on the restore process
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus file level restore sudo previleges

Hi IBM, We are trying to enable file level restore on SPP and we are following the below URL.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spp/10.1.8?topic=requirements-file-indexing-restore One of the pre-rquisite is to enable superuser privileges for the agent us...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Firmware Check

System: TS4500Actor: Customer Commerzbank is asking for enhancements regarding library firmware check.Case was opened on behalf of client Commerzbank as a follow up for a critical situation.
almost 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Sync Snapshot information marked for deletion or deleted from the SPS side with the FlashSystem

Currently, When we execute command "./fcmcli -f inquire_detail" the list of all the snapshots taken by the SPS is displayed. CASE 1 : In case of the parameter MAX_VERSIONS when the new snapshot is taken, automatically older snapshot version exceed...
3 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Allow larger than 256 KiB blocks while accessing tape devices

As by TS009588298 we have performance issue while accessing tape drives, and using a larger block size (e. g. 2 Mebibytes instead of the now maximum 256 KiB) is improving performance a lot. This would even make it possible for us to backup the SP-...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Provide More Granular DS8 Capacity Reporting for Storage Insights Hosts and Volumes

Please provide the ability to capture capacity information for hosts and volumes at a more granular level, eg hourly/sample vs just a single daily entry. The array overall we can see capacity data at least to an hourly level, so this would allow u...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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