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Need to sort VSNAP by name or by site in SPP GUI

We have more than 60 VSNAPs and we need to sort them by name or by site
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

The Menu ?DS8000 Paths? should include the Location column

If you add a storage connection at the “Storage System” menu you are able to give the new storage system a “description” at the Location column. This is very helpful to distinguish the storage systems. It would be very helpful to display this colu...
about 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Need to protect AWS RDS databases

whilst SP/SPP support native SQL databases, they do not support AWS RDS SQL. As users start to move more workloads to AWS, they need to continue protecting the data. Failure to provide this functionality within SP/SPP will make users look elsewher...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to Clone/Copy SLA Policy

Add the ability to clone SLAs i.e. keep the retention/schedule/replication/offload settings and just give the option to set a new name
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add Spectrum Virtualize (SVC) lslicense information to Spectrum Control

Add a report to Spectrum Control which gives an overview of the required licenses for all monitored SVC clusters. (SVC CLI lslicense output). The current SCU license overview (settings->licensing) are the licenses needed for Spectrum Control wh...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Adjust DECOMMISION NODE command to show ALL the changes done by it

ISP server administrators will benefit from it by spending less time on collecting action evidences for ticketing systems. Currently the command DECOMMISSION NODE with WAIT=YES doesn't show all the changes that command is doing. Check the piece of...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Enhance information provided in case of errors flushing file data from pagepool to persistent storage

In case of failures in that area, file data may be corrupted. Providing the information which files are affected omits the effort of manually identifying them by expensive scans of the file system.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Remove from SLA button

When modifying subject being backed up by a specific SLA, it would be more user friendly if you added a "Remove SLA" / "Unassign from SLA" button. Now i need to "Select a SLA Policy" to actually unselect a subject from a SLA.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale AFM support for GCP

AFM file/object copy to GCP. Better: use AFM to TIER to GCP
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Backup SLA hung

More generic job timeout option if for any reason a database/VM backup would hold the entire job
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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