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Need an option to "backup" or "export" custom SQL-reports in "Spectrum Protect Operations Centre"

Some customers have many custom sql reports in their OC, so we need an convenient option to export or backup those sql-reports either in one single file (like .xml) or export single reports to single files (and consequently are able to import them...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Improvement in Data connections filter in UI

In the Spectrum Discover web interface under "main menu" -> "Data Connections" -> "Connections" a filter would be very useful especially because we are already dealing with more than 300 data sources. At the moment it is very cumbersome to f...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Functionality already exists

Add TS1160 support to V7 Storage Agent

Platin/PlatiniumCustomer VW has more than 200 physical HP/UX and SUN Solaris server, running several applications, including Oracle, some of them larger than 100 TB. All these server are using TSM TDP with LAN free backup. VW purchased the TS4500 ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 1 Not under consideration

Configuration of the ISP client 8.1.9.0 in a clustered environment (AIX and Linux).

Configuration of the ISP client 8.1.9.0 in a clustered environment (AIX and Linux). As stated in TS003354444 it does not work though we follow the instructions in "https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.0/com.ibm.itsm.srv.doc/c_clu...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus: Enhance schedule daily, weekly,monthly and yearly

Spectrum Protect Plus: Enhance schedule daily, weekly,monthly and yearly Currently we need to create with multiple SLA for different schedule of daily, weekly, monthly.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SIDhistory support needed for AD domain migration

Our customer is going to merge 2 hospitals into one new Active Directory domain and needs to have support for SIDhistory to keep access to files from both old domains. This is needed in SAMBA in CES. Support for SIDhistory is already available in ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

File Indexing numbers

Need to add option to get current utilization of file indexing numbers as we have limit in SPP
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to replicate all VSNAP backup data to a new VSNAP

Ability to Replicate all VSNAP backup data to a new VSNAP, not only new backups that happens after the replication is setup (as happen today).
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Protection copy for On-Premise Cloud Containers

On Premise Storage like Cloud Object Storage (COS) and other vendor solutions gives the ability, to use modern data protection with on premise cloud storage pools. In the age of cyber crime and ransomware, it is very important and a business requi...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Certificate used on port 1751

DS8950F -> Port 1751 have Certificate lifespan is longer than 5 years root CA=/C=US/postalCode=85744/ST=Arizona/L=Tucson/O=International Business Machines/OU=Storage Systems/CN=ESSNI_NIST Issuer: C=US/postalCode=85744, ST=Arizona, L=Tucson, O=I...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

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