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TS7700 and IBM Security QRadar support

From level R5.1 (8.51.0.63), the name of the sender of the logs visible in the IBM Security QRadar software is for example :- LinuxServer @ 00323_78-H9952_ (example of TS7700 unit with the serial number of the 3957-VEx server) - LinuxServer @ Adre...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

IP Quorum message when deamon stoppes running or VM is down.

After setup IP quorum in a Stretched cluster environment there is no warning\error or message when the VM is down or deamon stopped running. So a message or event is needed to take action to start the IP quorum again.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Achive/Retrieve/Backup operations on ISP v8.1 webclient

We need retrieve operations for webclient. Our pilot teams retrieve lots of files everydays. They are no administrator and they must choose files in the long list of everyday archives files. Our customers regulary ask some files. Pilot team are no...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Inbound replication should report statistics into the summary table

Currently statistics for data ingested using replication (classic, stgrule or protect stgpool) is not completely reported to the summary table, the bytes value is always 0. This makes it difficult to run reports or monitor load on a server that ha...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

support mmapplypolicy to scan file in remote cluster

we use mmapplypolicy to scan file status (mostly metadata like file path, size, mtime, afm cache state, ...) in a specific directory or fileset. But in remote cluster mmapplypolicy is not allowed to do it. we need support for scan file in remote c...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

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

SpVirt GUI: option to set the refresh period of webpages

gui : option to set the refresh period of webpages, as it is automatic now and rather short.
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Is a defect

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

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

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