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Spectrum Protect soporta buckets S3 en IBM COS de tipo Standard, Archive y Accelerated, queremos solicitar que también soporte Cold Vault, Vault y Smart Tier.

Spectrum Protect soporta buckets S3 en IBM COS de tipo Standard, Archive y Accelerated, queremos solicitar que también soporte Cold Vault, Vault y Smart Tier.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Store backup CRs with Application

CRs should be stored with the application namespace so they are versioned with application and backed up as part of the namespace backup. Storing the backup CRs with the Backup namespace means restore is limited to clusters that are manage by the ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Have the ability do define a cut-off date and time for scheduled operation

Have the ability do define a cut-off date and time for scheduled operation expecially when it is expected to run at a predefined date/time. If for any reason the CSM server is stopped when a timer for a scheduled action expires, the action will be...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Future consideration

FLR from VM target replicated via Vsnap

In case that SLAs which replicate the backups. Then, if SPP restores a file or directory, this file or directory is always restored from the Vsnap source in case of the Vsnap replication. It should have the option to restore the file from Vsnap so...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SI Reports filters not flexible

The reporting utility in SI is very good, but additional flexibility in the filter section is desirable.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

Identify each Restore Process choosing a name

In the jobmonitoring panel all restore process are showed with the same name " onDemandRestore". We should have the possibility to choose a name by restore process.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Online Backup/Restore capability for CP4BA(21.0.3) provided by IBM Storage Fusion

Team, We have a Canadian customer(Canada Life) who requires online backup/restore solution for their CP4BA v 21.0.3 running in ARO via IBM Storage Fusion.Below are the applications which client will be deploying via CP4BA v21.0.3.· CPE· CSS· ICN· ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Enhancements on Spectrum Scale Installation toolkit to support remote cluster configurations and updates

Currently there are a gap in this toolkit to define remote cluster configs. We know that the code are already available in the open source stuff but not in the offical release of the installer. It should be added to simplify the current manually s...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Add JCL to IWNALLOC for SAMPLIB & ASAMPLIB

Please add JCL in the IWNALLOC.JCL file to include SAMPLIB and ASAMPLIB.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

CSM for z/OS - Active/Standby on different storage systems

We installed the standby CSM server on remote site on a different sysplex with different storage systems. All storage connections from the active CSM were synchronized to the standby CSM server. But the standby CSM server has no access to the stor...
about 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration