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Allow creation of multi condition rules with selection of different (connected) devices

Currently when we create an alert all the criteria available in the Alert Definition are related to the specific selected device, As now we have SAN Switch supported by SI ( but this is valid as well for Server) , this would be very beneficial to ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Restoring deleted data on Object Storage

We provide datacenter and data protection service over Spectrum Protect Plus to our customers.We also provide cloud service over Zadara, added Zadara as S3 compatible on Spectrum Protect Plus. Zadara has a feature that enables us to restore a dele...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

dsmcutil updatepw /validate:no doesn't accept FQDN commserver

dsmcutil updatepw /validate:no doesn't accept a FQDN server name by design. FQDN must be used with CA signed certificates and should therefore be supported.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Allow Spectrum Protect Plus to restore database to different instance using existing database name

I backup a database EXAMPLE on one server(prodserver) under instance Prodinst1. I have a test server(testserver) with instance Testinst1. As part of testing, our developers use testserver/TestInst1 database EXAMPLE. SPP backs up the database on pr...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

DRP Pool -> show internal volumes in vdisk list or on a seperate list

Producing transparency, not just accounting for the consumption of internal volumes in the pool, but displaying those volumes in the volume list of consumptions.
about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

SPP dashboard to marked out following the RBAC settings

In the Dashboard page, we saw the coverage. Although some users are scoped using RBAC functionality, the coverage is not updated in this regard.Same about the policy preview Is there a way to show the user his own perimeter? for exemple DBA team s...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

More control over "disable sessions" for client nodes

Sometimes it may be necessary to prevent clients from connecting to a Spectrum Protect Server to perform backups. Reasons for this can be, for example, maintenance work on the Spectrum Protect Server, where access to the storage pool is not given....
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

API enhancements for invoicing/billing

In the web gui for Scale you can easily get the accounts and used storage under the "Object / Accounts" button. But there is no simple way to retrieve this information using api/rest. (There is not even a scheduled report function for it). This is...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow individual NDMP backups to be deleted with a new "delet nasbackup" command

At present only the following methods can be used to delete NDMP backups in Spectrum Protect 1. Altering the copygroup settings for the management class in the policy domain which the NDMP backups are bound to and allowing expiration to run.2. Del...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Operations Center does not allow a Container-Copy to be defined on a Directory Pool which Node Reps to a server using Cloud

When a Directory Container Pool is using Node Replication to replicate to a server which stores received data in a Cloud Container Pool, the Operations Center GUI does not all a Copy-Container Pool to be defined to allow a PROTECT STGPOOL to tape ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration