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Support for AWS Private Link and VPC

Allows for us to follow our personal best practices with sending the data over a VPN to our AWS tenant. We have a URL that we would like to put in for the communication which will resolve to our private IP. It looks maybe like you used to be able ...
almost 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus support for Db2 Purescale

Customer who has majority of database residing on Db2 of which 90%+ of those databases are Db2 Purescale requires support for this platform in Spectrum Protect Plus.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Convert a root fileset to an independent fileset

With AFM working only with independent filesets and not with root fileset, a customer that is hosting some data that needs to be replicated on its root fileset and that needs to transition to AFM will need to migrate (copy/move) all the data on th...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Expire individual backups in Spectrum Protect Plus

Expire individual host/application backups assigned to SLA policy
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

OC License History

OC already has reports from FrontEnd and BackEnd licensing, however many customers would like to be able to track the historical consumption of their licenses, to allow a better forecast of how much they have been using.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

DRM Manager should support Container Pool

DRM must support container pool.There is no information for container pool in the drm planfile. We need information which offsite/onsite tapes we need to recover container pools. We can checkout the tapes with drm commands but have no information ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Properly manage Archive Mode flag in TS1150/TS1155 tape drives

The IBM TS1150 and TS1155 Enterprise tape drives has a configuration setting called Archive Mode [1] which controls whether archive mode unthread (also called low tension refresh) should be performed on tape unload. In recent firmwares [2] the def...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

CSM Co-existance with lower-level or different level CSM.

2. The ability for CSM software to co-exist with a lower-level or different-level CSM software in a CSM configuration where they are sharing one or the same CSM database.
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Enable more than 1 LDAP server for authentication because it is a single point of failure

System: SPP server 10.1.8Feature: Currently the SPP server only allows for 1 LDAP server entry. This is a single point of failure. There is no redundancy, if that single LDAP server is down there is no way for the team to log-in, because we do not...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Create backupset from directory container stgpool

Directory containers give much better performance compared to the "old" version of dedup, but it makes it impossible to create Backupsets (and export) which several of my customers are using to get an annual backup offsite
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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