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    Provide more details for Mail alert notifications for messages such as, IWNR1963W One or more logical paths between storage systems have entered an error state or have been removed.

    These alert notifications did not have any information regarding what paths and for which storage subsystems were affected during the path loss. When the CSM console logs were checked there were also no messages for this event and all paths were g...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Add Nutanix Acropolis AHV as supported SPP Hypervisor

    Please add Nutanix Acropolis AHV hypervisor to the supported Spectrum Protect Plus hypervisors.
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Retrules for databases and Exchange filespaces

    Ability to create long term / ad-hoc achives from already backed-up data is critical to our customers. We can not afford of re-reading the same data under different nodename to store it under different retention policy. There is a need for retenti...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    Glacier like Object Storage teiring in Tape. With compatibility with S3 API/Policies

    A growing trend I ha e noticed in my domain is data ownership and residency. However, costs exponentially rise as data has grown due to a lack of understanding of what data is being stored (partially due o GDPR which protects against data being vi...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

    seems deleting data from TSM trough TDP exchange client/console is allowed, even if on TSM node deleting backups and deleting archive is set to ‘NO’

    Hi! We had an open point/call with IBM , seems deleting data from TSM trough TDP exchange client/console is allowed, even if on TSM node deleting backups and deleting archive is set to ‘NO’ My suggestion is to add some features to block this becau...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Future consideration

    Allow larger than 256 KiB blocks while accessing tape devices

    As by TS009588298 we have performance issue while accessing tape drives, and using a larger block size (e. g. 2 Mebibytes instead of the now maximum 256 KiB) is improving performance a lot. This would even make it possible for us to backup the SP-...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Ability to add a second NTP server on TS7700

    Have the ability to configure a second NTP server on TS7700 to improve resiliency, operational stability, and compliance while reducing infrastructure risk.
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

    Add retry logic to increase resilience when there is a short-duration DNS outage

    The current version of the system will result in a job failure when there is a short-duration DNS outage. The current code will result in a job failure when this happens as there apparently is no logic to retry a failed DNS operation. This has led...
    5 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Multiple tenants SPP catalog backups to single external vsnap

    Add support for replicating multiple SPP catalog backups to a single external VSNAP that is only visible the source server account.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add option to add notes and custom annotations to VMs to allow better visibility of backups for VM admins

    Add option to add notes and custom annotations to VMs to allow better visibility of backups for VM admins You should be able to add something like the below as an example. Last Backup Completed Successfully - Yes/NoLast Backup Completed At - 01/01...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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