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Incremental Hyper-V Backup Like TDP for VE (VMware)

Please add the ability to perform incremental backups for Hyper-V using either the standard TSM BA Client or TSM for VE in a similar way as is provided for VMware backups.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Planned for future release

DS8000 Dynamic Volume Expansion and Copy Services.

I want the ability to continue to use Dynamic Volume Expansion even while my DS8886 DASD Volumes are currently in a Copy Services (GC,FC,MM) session. You have effectively removed Dynamic Volume Expansion from ever being used again if involved in a...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Toolkit support for separated admin and daemon network

Due to security, some clients have different IPs for daemon and for admin network, in a Spectrum Scale Cluster, and current version of Toolkit does not support different networks.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Proxy and vSnap on Power Linux

Require support for Spectrum Protect Plus vSnap server and VADP Proxy on Linux based on Power servers.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Protocols SMB online update support

With Spectrum Scale Protocols 5.0, SMB Update node by node should be possible online without downtime/business impact.Actually this is not possible.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Not under consideration

RPO Timestamp with Global Mirror recovery

We recently converted from MzGM to MGM. With MzGM, XRC provided an extremely granular timestamp on XRECOVER that told us what the specific RPO of our application data was. Along with RTO, RPO is one of the single most important concepts for Disast...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Requesting Support for 2-Factor Authentication with Spectrum Protect

As backup data is a primary tool used to recover from ransomware, ensuring the highest level of security surrounding the protection of TSM / Spectrum Protect data has been highlighted by Information Security. Having administrative accounts which h...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Fusion Data Foundation Regional DR support for CP4BA

A lot of customers are already on CP4BA on OpenShift, and using FDF as their storage solution. There is a need for a Disaster Recovery solution using Fusion Data Foundation Regional DR, and to be tested with CP4BA especially these capabilities: BA...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

SPP does not report "Missed" backups

SPP does not report "Missed" backups.If a backup is attempted and fails, this is reported in the job logs and can be reported on in the generate reports.However, if a job does not run on schedule (e.g. SPP is down, job has been paused for maintena...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

REST API to support client certificates

For a more secure connection, we would like to request that you implement the option to use client certificates for authentication.
almost 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration