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Increase number of SVC Partnerships

Increase the maximum number of SVC partnerships (current max is 4)
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Push Update for TDP clients

Large SP customer has 10.000 + SP clients. Because of security requirements ( CVE etc.) he has to update its SP clients very often. For BA clients the update process can already be done from the server, but currently this can not be done for TDP c...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

speed up PROTECT STGPOOL to local tape

The PROTECT STGPOOL to local tape is way too slow. In a sample environment with quite powerful hardware we only achieve around 200 GB/hour of througput with PROTECT STGPOOL while on the same server BACKUP STGPOOL from other non-container pools run...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

IBM Storage Fusion support for mutiple (1, 2 or 3) replica deployment model and lower infrastrucutre cost

Many modern OpenShift workloads are doing application level HA with deployment across AZ with transaction replication. The most prominant of these from the IBM SW portfolio are CP4I and CP4BA. For these workloads, their deployment with Fusion Data...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

Support for cp4d service protection backups using fusion have capability to be replicated from one s3 location to another.

I have been informed that in order to restore a cp4d cluster to a DR site, we would need to have available the existing s3 backup storage location, as the service protection backups do not support being replicated from one s3 backup location to an...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Spectrum Protect Plus: Replication Job ends in error when replicating only MSSQL transaction logs

Based on our SLA with the customer we need to synchronize SQL log backups to the secondary vSnap server ( with the replication job) every two hours. The replication job after the backup job is always successful, because volumes for data+log backup...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Enhance mmfindinode Performance and Provide SDK API for Path Query by Inode

This RFE requests enhancements to the mmfindinode utility in the GPFS/Spectrum Scale filesystem to significantly improve its performance. Additionally, it proposes the development of an SDK API that allows querying file paths based on inode number...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Enhancement for Anomaly Detection

I like the idea of Anomaly Detection in Spectrum Protect for the Server, starting in 8.1.5, to detect a possible crypto trojan. But in the our Use Cases it will become clear, that this is not much helpfull.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Need online password validation option for Spectrum Protect database backup

The Spectrum Protect database backups need password to be specified to include master encryption key along with database backup. However, there is no option to validate the password when spectrum protection instance is up and running. The only way...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

SP Plus interface enhancement: job monitor

In the Job monitor tab, add possiblity to filter entries to easily differentiate administrative tasks and backup tasks . Basically the Type column is already there but cannot be even used to sort the entries.Furthermore another column providing th...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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