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    Restart failed backup

    SPP should provide the option to restart backups and try again to protect failed VMs of the previous run.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Disable ransomware alert for specific nodes

    Ransomware detection is always on, and cannot be disabled. Every login has a pink banner because 5 nodes are never near their long-term average for size and dedupe ratio.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Planned for future release

    authentication and authorization mechanism for application groups and general groups

    Customer is India's Largest MSP and deployed A9000R with Spectrum Control. Customer requires functionalities which is part of Public Cloud Feature.(i) Managing Domains of A9000 (HSM) through Spectrum Control as single Console would help them to ma...
    over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

    CCU Checker enhancement

    Enhance the blocking feature of CCU Checker so that it can distinctly handle update errors when there is a risk of severe impact to hosts and volumes. Handle errors with methods that prevent any circumvention without IBM second level approval.
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Multiple transfer streams between pools for data from a single node

    We use a TSM system where the nodes/clients push data first to disk, then the TSM server migrate the data from disk to tape.We have several use cases where nodes periodically push data faster than the ~350MB/s that our tape drives (TS1150) can han...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Reflink/ficlone support

    reflink/ficlone is a system call for making clones of files, where all data blocks is initially shared, and changes are then done through copy-on-write/redirect-on-write. This can be done through "cp --reflink", or IOCTL_FICLONERANGE system call. ...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    High availability support for vsnap

    VSNAP and VADP proxy high availability (clustering ) support. We need to extend the clustering support already available for SPP server to VADP Proxies and Vsnap servers, in combination with HW storage sharing
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Change status of a need_replace tape

    The eeadm tape replace command is a command that take long time because when this command is in the reclaim phase, is only allowed to use two tape drive although a regular "eeadm tape reclaim" command is allowed to use more tape drive. Sometime, a...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

    Provide a CLI (OS) command spp_status on the SPP Server to have a quick view if all required processes are up and running

    Similar to the CLI (OS) command vsnap_status on the vSnap server provide a CLI (OS) command spp_status on the SPP Server to have a quick view if all required processes are up and running.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Enable object lock for internal DB backup and better retention management on Volhist

    With object lock being available on backup storage pools there is a requirement to ensure the internal DB2 database can also be protected to the same level and functionality. A check of the object metadata to ensure the lock has expired/no longer ...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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