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Backup of NFS file systems without mounting them.

Currently our customer use IBM Spectrum Protect in their on-premise archiving. They are in their journey to cloud and want to implement an archiving robust solution, so they started to evaluate multiple tools including IBM SP. They are requesting ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

IPv6 Support for NDMP

NDMP-Backup of NAS-Systems (CDOT CAB) not possible in IPv6-Only environment. Datamover creation can't resolve AAAA records, NAS Node needs v4 LIF to open connection to tape server. First step would be to tell the storage system only the DNS name o...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SVC and Storwize Machine Location field schould support special characters

In the GUI of the SVC / Storwize / FS systems (exception FS900) you can only use alphanumeric characters. Special characters are only possible on the command line. This should be adjusted on the GUI.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

FlashSystem Single Pool spanning multiple controllers data placement

Requesting an option on a storage pool spanning multiple control enclosures for extents for each volume to be placed on the mdisks local to the access control enclosure/io group
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Make a setting that indicates internet access available or not

Secure installations does not grant internet access to any hosts directly, neither in nor out From fw logs, we can see that SPP tries to connect to outside servers, and that causes just noise in logs. I would like settings that enables or disables...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SI should flag/alert when firmware or microcode level is End Of Support

I would like to see (Maybe in Insights Advisor) if the Storage Firmware or Software is End Of Support. On IBM SVC family for example.. SVC hardware node may not be end of support, but it’s running a firmware code stream that IS end of support. Thi...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Schedule policy/job to execute every 4th saturday of the month

Policy can be set to start on the day of the month (1st, 2nd,...) and can be set to start at Saturday but repeat it every 4 weeks, because some months have 5 weeks it's not acceptable. We need it to be set(because of load) every 4th saturday of th...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPP Support for IBM Informix

Customer requests support for Informix in SPP. Our Customer is interested in the reuse feature because this is important for their business.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Hana DB & Log filsystem split

For our regular restore test we do export/import between zone server and central one.If we want to export a DB backup and 7 days of logs we have the problem that all of this goes to the same filesystem /tdpmux and if we export from a ranged period...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect - update LASTACC_TIME when a target node is replicated to

Hi, In Spectrum Protect, when a node in a replicated pair is replicated to (when it is the target) the LASTACC_TIME does not update. We often use the LASTACC_TIME to determine if a node is still in use, if the LASTACC_TIME is over X days then we d...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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