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    SP move data out of CLOUD containers

    Once TSM/SP data ends up in a CLOUD pool, there is no way to every move it anywhere else. We should be able to move data out of a cloud pool. MOVE NODADATA might be relevant, but would only work if you could specify source and destination pools. T...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    TS7700 Web Management Interface for IBM BP

    Supply to IBM BP a TS7700 WEB MI as a remote tool or demo
    almost 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Support for vApp options during restoration

    We noticed that after a restore, vapp Options are disabled with the loss of the settings which was previously defined on these vapp options.
    9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

    CAS GPU Server to support H200 GPU card

    Allow customer to customize the GPU card with H200 in addition to RTX Pro 6000. Allow customer to use the GPU server to build custom AI Data Platform such as generic K8s platform with GPU card for generic AI training and inferencing workload.
    4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

    Handle PVCs without StorageClass as warning instead of blocking the backup

    IBM Storage Fusion Backup & Restore should handle PVCs without an OpenShift StorageClass more gracefully during backup validation. In some environments, especially with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, there can be many PVCs that refer to external NFS ...
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    SPPlus : restore VM to my cloud provider

    In Spectrum Protect plus , it would be interesting to have the ability to restore a VM to a cloud provider. As we can restore to alternate location today, alternate location could be then IBM Cloud or Amazon or Azure so the VM is being restored an...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Control Storage Insights to have multiple data collection targets for a single Spectrum Scale Environment

    Currently Spectrum Control Storage Insights, can only target one Spectrum Scale node for data collection.
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus file level restore sudo previleges

    Hi IBM, We are trying to enable file level restore on SPP and we are following the below URL.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spp/10.1.8?topic=requirements-file-indexing-restore One of the pre-rquisite is to enable superuser privileges for the agent us...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Extend API support for the STaaS service Dashboard.

    The IBM STaaS Service comes with an extra dashboard for Storage Insights Pro. Unfortunately, all information displayed via the Dashboard GUI cannot be obtained via the API. Please extend the API functionality so that all information displayed in t...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Send an SNMP trap when an open problem is fixed, for SNMP server to clean/drop the alert.

    Send SNMP traps when open problems are fixed so clients can automate the cleanup of open issues on their monitoring tools.
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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