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    Post activity tasks after Fusion backup completion

    Customers are integrating Fusion backup restore for OpenShift workloads with Data Protect. As part of the process they want to send backups to Data Protect S3 view which is supported. They want to leverage the immutable capabilities of Data Protec...
    9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    MDISK removal advanced features

    It would be great to be able to tune rmmdisk performance, I mean, selecting all mdisks to remove from a pool and ensure a few things: 1.- Do no write extends on mdisks that have been also selected for removal, it has no sense to put workload in md...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    installCSMDSCLI.sh env var CSM_ProductionRoot split into 2 vars

    In zOS CSM DSCLI, one must run the SAMPLIB(IWNINST2) job to actually install the product via script installCSMDSCLI.sh. The script requires 3 environment variables to be set:CSM_InstallRootCSM_ProductionRootCSM_JAVA_DIR The CSM_ProductionRoot path...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Restore VM to the max. possible configuration in case of any issues detected instead to force restore only to minimal config

    We have now experienced several situations where VM's were restored with only a minimal configuration because of problems (e.g. maximum number of available ports in port group was reached, unrecognized new parameters in VM config etc.). For furthe...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Allow more than 1450 characters into SQL statement used in reports section

    Hello, Right now, we are limited to 1450 characters into an SQL statement when generating custom reports from Operation Center. This is an issue when the SQL statement is longer than that. I would like to have that limitation being removed. From t...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

    Improve Retension Policies

    Improve SPP retention policies.Make them similar to classic TSM. (1) Option to always keep last X copies - this means that if the backup fails to run, it does not expire your existing backups. We have been in a situation where SPP was down for 2 w...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Migration of Data/Backups between VSnaps

    In backup operations, it is becoming increasingly apparent that existing backup jobs are growing larger and larger, reaching the limits of a VSNAP. Adding new VSNAPs only helps new backup jobs or distributes existing backups to different VSNAPs. A...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SPP agent for file backups

    Please develop an agent to backup files directly from the VM (over WinRM or SSH/SCP) instead of through disk snapshots.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

    Dynamic grain size for point in time copy

    Performance of small block applications like EPIC health record systems, reduce write amplification.
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information

    Automatic archive log inactivation by Spectrum Protect Snapshot for SQL

    Full backups made by Spectrum Protect Snapshot (FCM) for SQL, through VSS, do not inactivate the previous archived logs, causing them to accumulate on the Spectrum Protect Server. The inactivation process is done manually through the command line,...
    almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

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