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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...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Add SI Support for 32Gb SAN Switches (IBM c-type)

Spectrum Control and Storage Insights for Spectrum Control do not support 32Gb IBM c-type switches. Clients require support for IBM/Cisco MDS switches. Specifically IBM SAN48c-6 (Cisco MDS9148T) and IBM SAN96C-6 (Cisco MDS9396T).
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add ability to specify SSH port and REST API port (if REST API used for UserID/Password connection

We have storage devices running that will not be upgraded to 8.6 for some time (or never), but are accessible only through NAT firewall gateways. The SSH daemon is accessible via ports that are not 22. Cisco and Brocades allow the REST API port nu...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 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...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SP server to support IBM S3 cloud side retention policies, WORM features, object locking

When using Cloud Storage Pool in a Spectrum Protect Server , it should support all the features that can be set at the S3 level ( especially when the S3 cloud is IBM !! ) like Cloud side retention policies, WORM features, object locking.For retent...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

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

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.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Save the last copy

We have seen scenarios where VMware Virtual Machines just disrepair out from vCenter because of VMX file has been corrupted, or has been deleted of mistake.And because of the server or service hasn't been that important or been used that offend. W...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for Extended ACL Propagation on Spectrum Protect BA Client Restore to Isilon NAS via Windows Proxy.

The customer opened a tickets to report that when he would restore files locally on a Windows host / proxy, it would restore the extended ACL proxy using the BA Client but when he does the same, using the same Windows Proxy but to restore the data...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

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