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Enable text based output from Rest API

Rest API query for license usage comes out as pdf, excel or html. These are not well suited to import to other systems for automation. I would like the output as text, like csv file.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Future consideration

support pools of varying block sizes in a single filesystem (as well as > 32 subblocks)

Support differing block sizes for different pools within a given filesystem (allowing for >32 subblocks on new pools created within existing filesystems created prior to scale 5.0).
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Customer needs more detail on client activity to be able to manage backups effectively

A customer needs more information to be able to effectively manage client backups. If a client experiences an exception, it is important to be able to look at its historical success and failure and workload. Specifically, in the details section fo...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add information to Operations Center to make client management better.

A customer needs more information in the operations center to be able to effectively manage client backups, particularly exceptions in the data protection services. For example, the current columns that can be selected include the at-risk status a...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

.NVRAM and vTPM restore needed with DP for VE VMware

Restore of a VMware guest does not include .NVRAM and vTPM. VMware points out, that backup software should take care of backup and restore of these two objects.https://vdc-repo.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/8f96698a-0e7b-4d67-bb6c-d18a1d10...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

Reusedelay-like option in Spectrum Protect Plus, similar to the option in Spectrum Protect

A reconciliation option between vSnap contents and SPP catalog, in the event that an SPP catalog restore is needed, so that at least some backup recoveries can be facilitated from those snaps missing meta data.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to set a warning message when the TS7700 premigration queue utilization reaches certain % of the licensed TB.

There is no ability to set an alert to warn the end user that the premigration capacity utilization is at certain percentage of the licensed premigration TB. Having this ability will allow the end user to take a more pro-active action to prevent t...
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Detailed VM Backup Utilization report

This RFE is for improving the reporting function. What I think SPP is in need of is a more detailed report of storage usage per VM or application. More specific a presentation of deduplication ratio and compression ratio, with sizes in bytes - bef...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management missing RHEL 8 support

Currently Spectrum Copy Data Management 2.2.13 does not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

SPP - Enable 'disable log capability' to SQL Ad Hoc Backup

In an SQL Always-On (clustered) DB restore, we need the ability to disable log backups using the SQL Ad-Hoc backup function.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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