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Intergrated Message Console

Being able to see message that emulate the z/OS console. The features is available on the z/Enterprise HMCs, and the DS8K.
5 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Needs more information

Running jobs on an SLA consecutively

Spectrum Protect Plus allows us to run all jobs on a schedule. When replicating, copying or archiving a backup data we need to set a time to the job.But sometimes backups take more time than usual and in that case replication and/or copy job fails...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Print QR code when setting up MFA in dsmadmc

The new MFA/TOTP support for admin accounts is great, but it's cumbersome to set up when using dsmadmc due to the need to manually enter the shared secret in the MFA smartphone app. The solution is to print a QR code, and that works fine even in a...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Introduce new Replication Only SLA

System: Spectrum Protect PlusActor: User needing new feature Spectrum Protect Plus is a Backup and Data reuse product that allows for easy protection of virtual workloads and replication to alternate locations. However, although replication is sup...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Show command that will be executed via GUI before confirmation

IBM Flashsystem GUI has a nice feature that shows what cli command was executed in the backend for selected options. It would be much better to show what will be executed before confirmation.
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Specify protocol -- rdma/tcp -- along with the subnet/cluster reachability

Consider the following use-case: There are two clusters each with multiple nodes. The intra-cluster communication (i.e amongst nodes within the cluster) happens via TCP and inter-cluster communication (i.e amongst nodes between clusters) happens v...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support TDP for MSSQl running on Linux

MS is now supporting MS-SQL running on Linux. It would be nice to do a backup of that too.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Appliance High Availability

Spectrum Protect Plus Appliance holds critical Data to backup and restore VMs. At present there is no way to make this Highly Available (HA) similar to Vsphere appliance. During normal operation we should be able to: Switch to secondary site and s...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

followsymbolic option for windows

There is no option to back up a content of a linked (or junction) directory on Windows.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Support ZFS on Linux Client

We use FreeBSD servers with ZFS filesystems on our large storage systems. Since there is no native FreeBSD Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client, we intend to use the Linux version leveraging FreeBSD's Linux runtime environment. But the SP Backup...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration