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Migration of Backup-Jobs between SPP MasterServers

Export/Import of specific SLA's, Nodes, Backups incl. all necessary data from SPP Server1 to Server2 (e.g. new install SPP or existing installations) on node level on SLA level on backup job (SnapShot) level
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Support for Immutable Flag for ext4/xfs file systems

Please introduce support to use immutable flags in container and file storage pools for linux file systems like ext4 and xfs
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Treeview of copies

Why don't you add a graphical view of the copies ? It is not easy manage the copies without having a global view of source disks and related copies. Something similar to the attached picture or by exploring a treeview
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Backup on AIX nodes managed by PowerHA

The High Availability configuration of Power AIX systems is made up of two or more real nodes to which volumes and IP addresses are associated and then managed by PowerHA. In this configuration there are therefore at least three types of volumes:...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Full Copy

By default backup jobs create the first copy as a full copy on thin volumes. Being a full copy, the 80% threshold set as a warning value is always exceeded, generating emails and alarm events. Is it possible to set by default the value to 0 (disab...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Massive initial load

During the system configuration phase, it would be useful to be able to do the massive import of providers and identities (whether they are passwords or keyfiles). This would drastically reduce time spent to setup the environment.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Actions on multiple selected object

If we have to hold/release several jobs we have to do it on each single job. Selecting all the jobs the only available action is "Delete", which is the most dangerous option. I think it can be very helpful for the day by day activity to enable al...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Add the IBM Case Number to the DS8K Event when a Call Home is performed

By having the Case Number in the Events logs, this saves time involved with logging on to the DS8K HMC to obtain the Case Number. It can also be useful in identifying situations where AOS is not operating correctly (no Case Number generated).
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Functionality already exists

Fusion Backup - Support Entra ID or shared access signatures (SAS) for Azure Blob

Currently, Fusion support Azure Blob as a storage location using the account name and key as described here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-fusion-software/2.7.x?topic=locations-adding-backup-storage-location This approach is contrary to reco...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Increase history from 2 weeks to a longer (per choice) period of time.

2 weeks are to short for history for clients and servers where customers often asks for changes that happened maybe 1-2 months ago. Espicially when it comes to "what happened / why did my storage grow last month" but also in regards of SP server s...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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