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    Options for SPS Offload

    The tape_backup function creates a "db2 backup database" command for the offload of a FlashCopy image to TSM. This works fine but I am not able to add any backup options to this command. It is assembled by SPS. But it would be very useful to add o...
    4 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Submitted

    Allow suppressing host offline alerts at host creation time

    At a recent code level, the FlashSystem began sending email alerts to our on-call any time a host was offline, which happens frequently due to patching or any kind of other maintenance. Based on feedback from an RFE, there was the option to suppre...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

    QoS su Mellanox high speed switches

    We have a client who has a 100% Cisco managed network infrastructure. So the request is to enable QoS directly on Mellanox high speed switches on HCI in order to have proper management capability on our switches following Cisco/Client QoS rules. T...
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    add a DMS portal for GEOs other than AWS-US.

    The DMS portal of Defender is currently only available in AWS-US. For customers in Europe that have to deal with DORA, NIS2, GDPR and other topics find it hard or impossible to accept a critical application running outside of EU. Please roll-out a...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 3 Planned for future release

    AlwaysOn Servermon should be able to automatically cleanup old datacollections in the instance_home/srvmon directory

    Multiple of our SP server instances experienced an issue which prevented AlwaysOn Servermon from starting up.The servermon log files show that servermon is crashing at startup.We found that servermon is crashing at startup because there are a lot ...
    25 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Catalog backup stops DCDM server

    When the SCDM Catalog backup is initiated from the Admin Console,it stops the CDM server. This behavior is unusual and problematic. The SCDM Catalog backup should operate online, without interruptingor stopping the CDM server. Stopping the CDM ser...
    5 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Deep Archive and Vaulting

    IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently include support for off-site or out-of-library tape vaulting . Although this functionality is not used on a daily basis, it could be very useful for customers who need to export ca...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Future consideration

    Deep Archive and QoS at bucket level

    IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently support QoS. This feature would be particularly useful for customers requiring bandwidth throttling applied at bucket level, and would greatly increase the adoption of this technol...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Future consideration

    Incorporate Google and MS Authenticators to FlashSystem MFA

    Currently the supported MFAs are Duo and IBM Verify.I received a few requests from customers that do not work with Verify nor Duo, and requested to have the other options as well.
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information

    Support for Ubuntu 22.04

    As Ubuntu 20.04 support comes to an end in April 2025 please could you provide support for Ubuntu 22.04 for Spectrum Protect Server as per the previous versions listed here IBM Storage Protect 8.1.25 Server Requirements and Support for Linux x86_64
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

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