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    Storage Archive to query and refer to the active snapshot location instead of having it hardcoded to the default ./snapshots value

    If the snapshot location is changed within Storage Scale from the default ./snapshots value (for instance by mmsnapdir scale -a --snapdir .newsnapshotlocation, then Storage Archive might be lost in trying to find snapshots in the default ./snapsho...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

    For security reasons, Storage Protect components should use file access rights 750 (DORA)

    Resulting from DORA, customer Finance Informatik needs to improve operational resilience. From Wikipedia: "The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), officially Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 is a European Union regulation. It requires financial en...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Replicate retentionset and retention rules

    I have found a pretty bad design flaw in the retentionset. We use replication to move data off old SP servers to new hardware (or between OS).If the source server have retentionsets, then the data is replicated to the target server but not the ret...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Replication, Resume Backup on Target vSnap

    When vSnap replication for backups/SLA is enabled, incremental backup is only possible to the one, primary vSnap. If vSnap on primary site fails/unavailable, currently a new FULL backup on the secondary/replication site must be done, even if it ho...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    RETENTION SET migration from older TAPE format to newer format or Cloud

    Data outlives the hardware technology when storing RETENTION SETS for 5 years or more. Being able to efficiently migrate from old to new media type would prove our dedication to the data and increase the longevity of our product.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    ISPP - reduce required free space in VG for DB2 backup

    Currently when protecting db2 with ISPP you need to have 20% free space in the VG containing the DB2 database to accommodate the LV snapshots taken during ISPP DB2 backup. This additional storage requirement increases backup costs which can add up...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Addition of reclaimable space on lsvdiskanalysis and/or GUI volume properties

    With the avenue of reclaim_se utility to automatically reclaim capacity of thin vdisks part of standard pools, clients are starting to ask support at times regarding the reclaimable capacity on their volumes. The command lsvdiskanalysis, from clie...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    SPP support for Tanzu environments

    backup/restore support for K8s running on Tanzu (PVC and etcd etc.) with SPP
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    NTP updates needed

    Static NTP IP addressing still being used in TS7700 and TS4500 hardware. We have new datacenter requirements of using DNS names instead of static IPs. Also giving the customer the ability to set these in the VTS hydra and being able to display the...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    hardware inventory report in Storage Insights

    Kindly build mechanism to have one click hardware inventory report for assets configured for Storage Insights. No tool available in IBM portfolio to pull inventory of all assets configured.
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Submitted

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