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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.
about 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
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Operation Center Anomaly Reporting Improvement

Right the anomaly reporting of OC is very basic and not very usefull. There is no good way to export it and create a daily list of client nodes with anomalies and what type of anomalies are those. We would like to be able: Generate a daily spreads...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Fix BKI6243E error for HANA with SSL enforced

TSM to work with sslEnforce = True parameter on SAP HANA database
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

SafeGuarded backup allocation using a pool concept

Customer is running Safe Guarded backups for a month (31 days) worth of backups on a daily schedule. They have around 3500 volumes. Many of these are involved in DB2 and ADBAS databses. These database volumes (as well as some system volumes) under...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Keep supporting TSM API (backup to TSM via BRMS on IBM i)

Please do not discontinue this support.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Enhance mmperfmon sensors to generate DF statistics also for .snapshots in Filesystem and filset structure

In the area of Cybercrime we are in preparation of using saveguarded snapshots in our scale based Storage Protect environment. Because of the usage of immutable snapshots we had no sensor that generate space utilisation statistics of snapshots in ...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Requests and limits for statefullset ibm-spectrum-scale-gui in Spectrum Scale container native shoud be configurable

Currently CPU request for gui pods is set to 500m. This request is too large for small clusters and pod typically use ~10m. This can prevent other workload to be sheduled and it's wastefull especially in small multicluster scenarios.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) client for Linux on System z has no GUI client since 8.1.2 release

The IBM Spectrum Protect client for System z no longer has a means to access a newer release (8.1.2 or newer) server due to so called improvements in security between clients and server. Previously, clients were able to communicate with the server...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 6 Future consideration

Support Windows 2019 on the SP B/A client

More and more customers are asking about when we will support Windows Server 2019 to be able to install the B/A client.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release