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    S3 to Tape

    Provide a mechanism to flush out/tier older objects at bucket level from COS to tape ideally while preserving some kind of object level reference in the source bucket not having to rely on data movement at the application layer or leverage the COS...
    almost 3 years ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 1 Submitted

    Server support for Red Hat 8

    Spectrum Protect server needs to run on latest Red Hat Enterpise Linux editions 8 and 8.1.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Secure object information

    We need the ability to store and secure object information (data in cloud) like: WORM, Expiration, Retention time etc…. As general, this function should be in TCT (DS8000) and in TS7700C.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Check and Validate data on Export media

    There is a government regulation for checking information on external physical tapes. External tape information can now only be checked on a single and clean cluster that is not in the grid and we can't do any data validation on exported media.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Automated Restore for Spectrum Protect family of products

    Spectrum Protect is lacking any functionality which can automatically verify backup copies, whether they have been created using the BA client, TDP agents or Spectrum Protect Plus. Since Cristie pulled support for SP4VE from their Recovery Simulat...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Global Exclude List

    We are after a Global Exclude list of VMs that we can use to exclude VMs across ALL SLA Policies in SPP
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Properly manage Archive Mode flag in TS1150/TS1155 tape drives

    The IBM TS1150 and TS1155 Enterprise tape drives has a configuration setting called Archive Mode [1] which controls whether archive mode unthread (also called low tension refresh) should be performed on tape unload. In recent firmwares [2] the def...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

    Spectrum Protect 8.1.7 Retrule for NDMP data

    Client have requirement to retain the NDMP data for long term retention. We have upgraded the Spectrum Protect servers from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7 and tried to enable the retrule for NDMP data. But unfortunately that feature is not enabled for NDMP /datam...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    The 'System Down' field is not specified when Storage Insights is used to open a support ticket

    When using Storage Insights to create a ticket for a monitored storage system, there is nowhere to specify a value for 'System Down' field. Depending on the device type, the 'System Down' field may be a required field in the IBM Support Portal, in...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

    NTP updates needed

    Static NTP IP addressing still being used in TS7700 and TS4500 hardware. We have new datacenter requirements of using DNS names instead of static IPs. Also giving the customer the ability to set these in the VTS hydra and being able to display the...
    10 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

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