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Retain last X backups beyond date based expiration

Retain a configurable amount of backups beyond date based retention, requiring administrator action to delete.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Export node on container pools

The ability to export node data when using container pools
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum protect, official support for RedHat 8

Hi. There is a need to use RedHat 8 servers. Lacking support for backups on Spectrum Protect
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Display freeze time for remote copy remote copy relationships in Storage Insights

Customer has requested to be able to view Freeze Time for remote copy relationships within the Storage Insights GUI.Other remote copy information is viewed through navigating to: Resources - Block Storage Systems - Click the storage device - Click...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Not under consideration

selectable DIO/nonDIO-Support on Storagepools

we are working now in our TSM-Environment with a complete implementation of GPFS as the the filesystem layer for our TSM-Plattfom on AIX and Linux. With the possibility to use many performance function in gpfs we can massively enhance our performa...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus add Zero Trust Compliance to match Spectrum Protect Implementation

We are looking for Dual admin execution for removal of backup data. Similar to Spectrum Protect.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Selectable location for Cloud instance (compliancy with regulations - showstopper to use SI)

Banking customer requires their Storage Insights instance to be hosted in Europe. If not, they are not allowed to use Storage Insights. Customer would therefore also have to be able to select the location for their instance.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Simplify Ubuntu/Debian install instructions by using apt instead of dpkg

Since apt/apt-get nowadays (well, since apt 1.1 released in 2015) support installing from local file, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.11/client/t_inst_ubuntu_x86_64client.html should probably be changed from multiple dpkg -i...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Support multiple Operation Centers

We would like to use multiple OC´s to support remote monitoring in parallell with local OC. This is not possible today, but needed for our remote monitoring process. Maybe the local OC could feed some "cloud"-service (like CMC for HMC and power sy...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Provide batch management of TS7700 controls

We are a large shop with a large number of VTS clusters to manage (72 currently). Having this many clusters means a lot of additional work when logging on to that many GUI's to manage the various statuses and configuration settings. In order to mo...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

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