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Using an external Key Management System for ISP Client encrytion

At the moment there is no possibility to connect an external key management system for the ISP client encryption. The key is either generated automatically by the ISP server or has to be entered manually. We need a posibility to connect the ISP Cl...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Make IP Quorum App run as a service by default when it's installed.

Today the IP Quorum App is not installed as a service in the Operating Systems, so when the host where it resides is rebooted the client has to manually start the IP Quorum app again. If this is made as a service automatically during the install t...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Client Supend/Maintenance Mode

Add the possibility to put a GPFS client node in a suspend mode or maintenance mode.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Ransomware Information

Information about Client anomaly is reported into the table ACTLOG in Column "MESSAGE" with VARCHAR (3001) - ANR3692W A client backup anomaly... This information is nice but not practical to get selected/grouped information from it. I think all ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Snapshot support for IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption on DB2 databases

Spectrum Snapshot is NOT supported on DB2 databases when IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption has encrypted the database
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

Allow smaller amount of servers to be deployed using the Cloud Satellite automation

For Day 2 operations it is very important to be able to add single hosts to the Satellite environment and in the current interface you can only deploy a minimum of 6 hosts.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

To fix the the Container storagepool mismatch utilization issue

Protect: IBM Spectrum Protect (Server)Environment: Banking Issue statement: Backups started failing with 'out of space' issue even-though the Container stgpool utilization was just showing 61%. When checked from 'show sdpool' we could see there wa...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Provide options within SP to use SCSI commands to work with the tape operations, like mount a tape, unmount a tape, move tape from one slot to another etc

This is required for day to day operations, and this option is pretty much available with all other backup product vendors Refer - https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100022873 IBM case Ref - Case: TS016303198 (ibm.com)
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Functionality already exists

Add application aware backup and restore for Guardiaum Insights application

Client is running Guardium Insights in their OCP cluster, and are challenged with current data protection process, and need an enterprise level, automated application aware Backup & Restore solution for this environment.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Enable option to manually add ESXi host for restore onto

Restore function request – Recover to ESXi host - should option to manually add rather than just poll inventorised ESXi hosts
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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