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Design change to avoid deletion of Backup Data from a malicious hacker, mentally disturbed or very angry at his workplace

The following is a suggestion to ensure that Backup Data cannot be deleted by malicious hackers, internal Backup administrators who are very angry at their workplace or mentally disturbed. The proposal is to create a minimum of 5 Backup Admin Appr...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

Broadcast a warning message when the active logical volumes are near the logical volume license

In the current design, there is no alert setting that will broadcast a warning message when the active logical volumes managed is near the logical volume license. Many customers rely on automation to get an alert from any subsystem in their enviro...
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

List of expired logical volumes

When an expire hold is set on the TS77, the System deletes every hour an amount of tapes. We'd like to know what is deleted or even better, what will be deleted on a certain date. Having this list in zOS, we can compare the Information with the RM...
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Multiple Flashcopies per volume set.

Allow multiple Flashcopies to be taken that aren't directly tied to a set of volumes at Flashcopy point and time. Take the Flashcopy and use space from the storage pool, allow for multiple copies to exist for each replication session.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Flashcopy - restart or reset Flashcopy to original date/time

Flashcopy currently is a one and done function. It would be useful to have the ability to start over or reset a Flashcopy to it's original point and time. For example take a flash copy on Day 1 at noon, run your DR exercise, application test, vend...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Ability to Offload/Copy ALL VSNAP DATA to Cloud Object Storage (not only the last backup)

Ability to Offload/Copy ALL VSNAP DATA to Cloud Object Storage (not only the last backup)
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Proxy server support for connecting to AWS S3 (cloud container storage pool)

Support for proxy connections when defining cloud storage pools in Spectrum protect server
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Customisation of reports - possibility to add a customer logo

We would like to have the possibility to add a customer logo to the report mails and to change the format of the output from the SQL queries.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

add a default editor to the mmeditacl command

Currently there is no built-in editor for the command mmeditacl. However, there is a built-in editor for the command mmedquota. This is a request to add a built-in editor to the mmeditacl command.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Exclude VMs from VM-Backup in connection with a CloptSet

a function like Exclude.VM which excludes complete VMs from Backup serial able (not overwrites value before) / chain able / like other excludes In combination with a ClientOptionSet on the TSM-Server
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration