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spectrum Protect Plus reports is missing

Requests to add to the report's data of who performed the recovery.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus add Zero Trust Compliance to match Spectrum Protect Implementation

We are looking for Dual admin execution for removal of backup data. Similar to Spectrum Protect.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 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

Allow specific GDP fusion backup storage classwith Qos to avoid filling production filesystem

When doing fusion GDP backups to S3, fusion is doing a snapshot and then after a clone using mmxcp. This clone is then transferred to S3. When doing it on production systems, this clone is wasting space on production filesystem (i.e flash) as we n...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

How to gracefully stop the IP quorum application on host

Customer raised question :" how to gracefully stop the quorum application and shut that RHEL server down." Presently , we don't have stop command - hence we have to be dependent on host shutdown It will be good idea to add this new functionality "...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Lack of anomaly scanning integration with IBM Spectrum Protect Family

Lack of anomaly scanning integration to detect, diagnose and recover clean copies from a Cyber attack with IBM Spectrum Protect Family.Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption an IBM supported Cyber Resiliency solution.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

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...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

SPP progress on Job's

SPP does not show any proper progress details like for other admin job's
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Report or chart that shows SVC node/IOgroup balance at a glance

To better balance the workload across IOgroups, it's important to see the # of hosts, IOPS, throughput, etc. that each IOgroup is handling. Need a report that shows the IOgroup workload for all 4 IOgroups side-by-side in an SVC cluster. This helps...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Disable scan of files before archiving when using filelist

We have been archiving with file lists for over 20 years, so we know that the client archived differently and, above all, faster in earlier versions (5-7). If you specified a file list in these old versions, archiving started within a few seconds,...