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Hyperswap - estimator showing time running with failed communication

It would be nice to have command showing estimated time based on current and historical data transfer for which communication between sites can be broken till free space would be exhaused.
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Add support for direct attached tape by updating the interface to adhere to more recent standards (Fibre Channel, Ethernet, iSCSI) to support standalone connection to Power10

Currently the external tape drive supports 8Gb/s Fibre Channel which is N-3. Updating to 16Gb/s or 32Gb/s or 64Gb/s as well as adding support for Ethernet and iSCSI connectivity is required. This will enable greater flexibility, resiliency and per...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Planned for future release

CNSA / CSI add support for Access Mode ROX (ReadOnlyMany)

There are UseCases where Data should be shared between PODs or among different Clusters. To protect Data and prevent inconsistency it would be beneficial to enforce a ReadOnly Mode at OpenShift PV Level. Currently, ReadOnly can only be set in the ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

SPP - Support for Dataguard

We would like to use SPP to backup our Oracle Databases. Most of the areas at the city will be moving to Dataguard later this year. If this is not supported then we cannot use SPP for this.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP default policy creation after software upgrade

At initial install some SLA policies are created by default. I have no containers and Amazon EC2 instances to protect, so I don't need the default policies "Container" and "EC2" and have deleted both policies. But they are recreated after every sy...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Backup data from ESX host without vcenter

Spectrum Protect Plus requires vcenter in virtual machine backups.But not every customer has vCenter, their virtual environment only runs on the ESX host.In addition, many backup products can take backups from the ESX host without the need for vce...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

File Indexing - Change default SSH port 22

For file indexing restore the SSH service must be running on port 22 on the server. Please add an ability to change default SSH port 22 to other.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Operations Center Security Exposure IBM-OC Administrator

IBM-OC-XXXXXX is an exposure and should refuse logins or updates like SERVER_CONSOLE. The message in the web access to OC should also occur with login to admin client, with any attempt to change the password, or any attempt to modify or use this u...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time

Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Not under consideration

Need better support to use specific CSM server IP address/hostname

Currently CSM does not have a documented way to define a specific IP address or hostname to be used for the CSM service. I found following potential places where this can be configured, but there could be other places as well: - ../wlp/usr/servers...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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