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    Please add ability to select individual VMDKs for inclusion, excluding all unselected VMDKs

    When configuring a Protection Group with a standardized configuration of the OS partition being on HDISK1, it is easier to select that one VMDK for inclusion rather than have to exclude all other VMDKs. Over time, VM configurations may change and ...
    about 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    SPP agent for file backups

    Please develop an agent to backup files directly from the VM (over WinRM or SSH/SCP) instead of through disk snapshots.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

    SQL Recovery Model change is not properly handled

    ISPP doesn't handle changes of the SQL recovery model from "full" to "simple" as it would be suitable for a enterprise product.When a DB with Log Backup enabled is changed to simple recovery model, there will be warnings that the log backup is fai...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Global Search of Storage Protect Servers from DRS

    Add as a capability in DRS for any connected Storage Protect server.
    10 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

    Adding a new volume to a parent volume group containing a snapshot that a thin-clone volume group was created from should automatically add the volume to the thin-clone VG when that VG is refreshed from a new snapshot taken from the parent VG.

    Since the thin-clone VG is tied to the snapshot of the parent, if you add LUNs to the parent and create a new snapshot and then refresh the thin-clone from the new snapshot, it seems logical that you would want the thin-clone VG to also have the n...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Need a msg issued to z/OS when the SGC backup completes either successfully or unsuccessfully so we can trap it via automation.

    We run a SGC scheduled task every hour. We need to be able to get notified via z/OS automation when a SGC backup completes either successfully or unsuccessfully. More importantly we need to build automation informing us when a SGC backup has not b...
    10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Functionality already exists

    Enable bond1 (25GbE cards) with FDF (Lenovo nodes) to be used with VLANs and VMs

    We noticed that currently the 25 GbE cards are mostly used for management/provisioning purposes. This fact got us thinking if we could use said network cards for a testing/development environment. The fundamental idea would be enabling a Linux net...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

    SAEE - Ability to change behavior of tape drive selection mechanism for transparent recalls to use also redundant copy and distribute workload to all copies

    Customer can use all available HW resources - all tape drives in all tape libraries for transparent recalls and increase throughput of recalls. It could be fine If I can set copies which will be available for transparent recalls. Customer faces pr...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Scale GPFS client running on z/OS

    Customer desires to speed up time to insights from their systems of record on z/OS.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Enable Zooming on Performance Graph

    In Storage Insights when looking at Performance or Capacity, give the ability to click-select an area of the graph to adjust the Start/End time of the displayed graph to the area you select.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

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