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Support reversal of roles of replication servers which have Retention Sets

If you have retention sets on either a source or target replication server, you cannot reverse the roles of the replication servers; that is, you cannot make the source server the target server and vice versa. If you do so, data in retention sets ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support nested groups from Active Directory

Currently SPP does not supported nested Active Directory groups.Only direct group members are able to login. With a "nested" group member - so a member of a group under the added group doesn't work.Here's what I mean: Group 1 (added to SPP) <- ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Manually select a specific snapshot and offload for long-term retention

Manually select a specific backup/snapshot and offload it for long-term retention.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Oracle Agentless Cold Backups

IBM Spectrum Protect PlusOracle Agentless COLD Backups Current versions of IBM SPP only support Hot backups. Our customer has all they Development environment with Oracle in non Archive log mode. Causing SPP not a viable option to implement backups.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

installation image for physical vSnap servers

IBM provides vsnap server OVAs für virtualized vsnap servers.In some customer situations it would be helpful to have also a fully supported installation image for physical vsnap servers including update images.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

CNSA Support for Per-PV Encryption

Add support for Scale CNSA to provide per-PV encryption allowing for each PV to use its own encryption key from GKLM or HashiCorp Vault. This would be configured as part of the encryption config CR for the PVC. Allow for each fileset associated wi...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Ubuntu on s390x support for Spectrum Project Client

Originally requested in 2019 and was marked for future consideration, IBM support Ubuntu on s390x Linux on Z however does not provide a backup client for Spectrum on an IBM platform s390x Linux on Z.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Allow more than 1450 characters into SQL statement used in reports section

Hello, Right now, we are limited to 1450 characters into an SQL statement when generating custom reports from Operation Center. This is an issue when the SQL statement is longer than that. I would like to have that limitation being removed. From t...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

Spectrum Protect faster backup and restore for Filer

Spectrum Protect's Backup by General Storage's MAGS parallelizes the process of checking objects for changes. As a result, this time-consuming part of the backup on file servers is massively accelerated.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

FlashSystem NAS

Japanese VAD. I am afraid this is a simple question.Why is it that only IBM does not have a NAS that can be bought for about 1 to 2 million yen?FlashSystem's FCM is excellent as block storage.However, we are often told by our Japanese customers.In...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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