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Currency Support for spectrum protect for Snapshot

We missing the Support of Spectrum Protect for Snapshot on rhel7.6 x86_64 Systems. Today the prereq checker complain that only 7.5 are supported. We use the snapshot function for db2 here.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Planned for future release

Support for SLES 15 using Spectrum Protect DP for HANA

I need a statement of support for DP for ERP SAP HANA on SLES 15
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Planned for future release

.tsv file extension should not take precedence for filetype .tsv.gz

We have encountered an issue with applications agents and scanning files of the type ".*.gz", for example "some_file.nii.gz" or "other_file.tsv.gz". The filetype registered after scanning a directory containing these types of files is often wrong....
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

Update VM success/failed summary for a job dynamically

When multiple VMs are being backed up there is no indication of how many VMs have been saved or have failed until the job is complete. The audit log for the job shows that some VMs have completed successfully and some have failed. Can the successf...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

mmhealth node show should explicitly show the cluster status, too

Currently mmhealth node show can report the node as healthy while there are problems elsewhere in the cluster, e.g. in the filesystem component:# mmhealth node show Node name: somenode.somedomain Node status: HEALTHY Status Change: 13 days ag...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Server for SLES 15.X

No versions of Spectrum Protect are currently support SLES15
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus GUI national language support

Request for SPP GUI in Japanese.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

IBM SPP to allow MS-SQL Restore to Standby State

Customer would like to have the ability to restore MS-SQL database to the Standby state.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

DS8950F LDAP works same time to AD and local users

Native LDAP - Only one DS8900F authentication policy can be active at a time: either the basic-local or the remote authentication policy.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

VM Restore Types - Change Naming

Change the VM restore naming types – They are confusing mostly because test creates an active clone and clone doesnt! In my opinion Test should be renamed Instant Access (can still create an active clone that you can move into production or cleanu...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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