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CSM enhancement request to have two CSM active servers to work with some user's responsibility

One customer in Japan is now implementing CSM environment on z/OS to manage FlashCopy and Global Mirror on DS8Ks. They are now using Hitach's shadow images (SI) and universal replicator (UR) and they will replace IBM DS8K's FC and GM with CSM mana...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

SP support for encryption of DB backup

SP support as of SP 8.1.10 encryption of DB backups when backing up the DB to Cloud. The encrypted DB backup is protected by a password. Similar functionality should be available when backing up the SP database to other device types including sequ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Allow a global exclude for a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job, like the function to exclude complete VMs via the Policy Options or by using a specific VM tag.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

FlashCopy Manager - enable higher values for SVC_COPY_RATE

Please increase possible values for parameter SVC_COPY_RATE to numbers higher than 100.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

Reports need to include graphs

We simply need the ability to include the displayed graph that is visible on dashboards or performance reports when we choose the "Create Report" option. All of the reporting options are currently text based and can include an over time reports bu...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Support of Oracle Database on Windows Server

Ability to backup Oracle databases (11gR2+) running on Windows servers.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Prioritising tape replication by catagory/dataclass

Currently data replication is performed on a fifo algorithm so as soon as a tape is available and there is a spare replication thread the tape will start to replicate. We have a situation where we have batch jobs that use a tape category for large...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Openshift-image-registry to be Included in Backup

Fusion UI does not display the namespace openshift-image-registry which is required during Recovery of Full Cluster.
11 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

File Indexing numbers

Need to add option to get current utilization of file indexing numbers as we have limit in SPP
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Adding additional Global Preferences for Default Restore Job

Since Version 10.1.5, when doing a restore, you can choose between "default setup" and "advanced setup". For the user doing a restore, the default setup should automatically use the most common values. In our customers environment, this would for ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration