IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Protocols - SMB: SLES as CES node on IBM Power Platform

    We need SMB support on ppc64LE / SLES.SLES has a market share of 99% in HANA on Power.HANA will be the only database for SAP.To use SpectrumScale in HANA environments we need SLES Support for smb.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

    Spectrum Archive - Undelete functionality

    Hi,Our client would like to have a feature on Spectrum Archive that will do the following :1.)Allow the undelete (recreate of stub file) of deleted file(s).2.)List all files on tape.
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

    RMAN plugin required

    We are changing our environment to separate failure domains across data center. To be safe but nearly synchronous our Oracle database will be (nearly) synchronized by Oracle dataguard based on Oracle ExaCC.To continue the backup solution with the ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Empty directories are not restored during a single file restore operation

    If your restore collection contains also empty directories , the empty directories are not restored. We also need restore empty directories, which are used temporarily.The default according to the manual is "skip" empty directories. It is intentio...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    IBM SP4C - Automatically recover Microsoft Teams Tabs on the restore process

    Customer has requested the ability for IBM SP4C to automatically recover Microsoft Teams Tabs on the restore process. While the current restore functionality works, it does not automatically restores tabs to their previous state, requiring users t...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 1 Under review

    SPP support for Bare Metal Recovery (OS Image) for Windows and Linux

    SPP support for Bare Metal Recovery (OS Image) for Windows and Linux.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    SP4C - Backing up Google Meet recordings & logs

    The customer is considering SP4C to manage backups of Google Meet recordings and logs as part of their information governance strategy. As Meet recordings are typically stored in the organizer's Google Drive, the customer intends to utilize SP4C a...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Under review

    IBM SPP: Allow VADP/VSNAP deployment with SSH keys instead of username/password

    Hello, VADP and VSNAP Deployment require that you enter a OS username and password for ssh communication. Username and password authentication is not very secure therefore any sane/larger customer will only allow ssh-keys for authentication. Pleas...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    SAP HANA setup for multiple backup retentions (monthly, yearly and so on)

    When customers need multiple retentions for SAP HANA, they need to use the script provided by IBM to temporarily change to a new UTL, or point a single different stanza in HANAs cockpint, which could put monthly backups in jeopardy since they will...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Future consideration

    Please add VMWare cloud Foundation 9 to the supported hypervisors.

    We have customers that still use Storage protect for virtual environments and Broadcom forces them to change to VMWare Cloud Foundation in the near future and if Storage Protect does not support this they have to switch the an other backup tool.
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Planned for future release

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