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Add "Warning" to VM Backup History Report

Add "Warning" to List of Status Parameters in VM Backup History Report.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add compressed/ill-compressed options to mmfind

For a while we have maintained our own modified versions of mmfind and tr_findToPol.pl in /usr/lpp/mmfs/samples/ilm so we can identify the compressed and illcompressed files. It would be nice if this feature could be considered for inclusion in fu...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Event notification capability to mark a hardware/software event as "Acknowledged/Unfixed" to suppress daily ongoing notifications until able to be resolved.

Current Spectrum Virtualize Software behavior: When an event is triggered/logged for a hardware/software failure or pending failure it causes SNMP notification to our in-house Monitoring system that triggers a call out notification to the Team (as...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under 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...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Restore of backed up Hyper-V VMs from a replica source where replica vm name is the same may fail

Based on APAR IT34036, backing up Hyper-V VMs from a replica source where replica vm name is the same as the original virtual machine name can result in data to become unrecoverable because the state of the original vm and the replica may differ (...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Provide IBM Storage Insights collectors to run in zCX

The Itau bank is one of largest GDPS and DS8K user and the Storage Insights is a strategic product to monitor the DASD performance. We have the license and we are starting the implementation of ZCX. Nowadays the Storage Insights is using Windows S...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

More granular level of tape data retention than just categories

At the host, a user can set more than one retention period for a category/media type for an LPAR. The TS7700 allows only one retention period per Category by design. The issue is that if a host user modifies the retention period at the host (malic...
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Document update to be more precise in what is not supported

In the Spectrum Protect Server document, "Configuring clustered environments" section, there is a line below. > You can use other cluster products with IBM Spectrum Protect; however, documentation is not available and support is limited. https:...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Catalog backup SLA report

Hello, We are a MSP which has ESA agreement with IBM. We provide IBM Spectrum Protect Plus as a service to our customers and guarantee %100 restore for the backups they take.Of course, we only offer this to our customers who receive Managed Servic...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Cloudtype S3 IA

Support for off-premise cloud container pool cloudtype for AWS S3 IA storage. Currently the only option is for S3.AWS offers S3 IA as an additional storage option - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-new-lower-cost-s3-storage-opti...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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