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Supporting Cloud-Container Storage pools on zLinux

Cloud-container storage pools is a feature that that already exists on Spectrum Protect family but it is not supported neither has a roadmap for it on top of Linux on Z.Today Sicoob already uses Spectrum protect on Linux on Z and not having a prop...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Enable the use of VPC Endpoint Interface URL for S3 bucket access when defining Cloud Container Storage Pool in Operations Ce

When defining a cloud container storage pool, an option of 'Other' URL is given, and in the CLI a CLOUDUrl can be specified with a custom URL. Instructions say to use the region S3 endpoint URL. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-protect/8.1.11?...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Database Report

the SPP does not have a specific report for databases with the total consumed separately from the VMs
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

OPCenter server can access the internet through a HTTP proxy

IBM Ticket : TS007157717 Hello, I would like to contact you beacause I am simply looking for an answer to a question.I'm looking to implement the auto-deploy feature for a client. The OPCenter server can access the internet through a network proxy...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

configure Tape drive Cleaning Frequency after written TB or used time instead of "as needed" or "999MB"

The default available Cleaning Frequency managed by TSM is restricted to 999GBSince LTO the recommended Frequency is based on working (write) hours for about 100hr or TB of written Data.For HP Drives it is recommended to clean every 100 R/W-hours....
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

IM SPectrum Protect support for expired data report

URGENT Requirement : Nedbank, in South Africa, are a large consumer of Spectrum Protect ans many other IBM products and are an ELA customer.. They urgently require assistance with an enhancement for them to be able to see when files were expired/d...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Include Date/Time Stamp option on Sessions panel

A Timestamp column is available on the Session Details panel. However, this column is not available on the main Sessions panel. Please allow the customer the option to customize columns with Timestamp as an option.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

Provide ability to add custom logo in Discover UI header

This is a high priority RFE from Princeton per discussions directly with customer, offering management (Par Hettinga), and sales team (Brian Seery, et al).Suggested Solution Provide customer with ability to display their own graphic in header line...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration

Would like choice to ONLY show tags for selection if present in results list

When we search through metadata and get a table of results, we can choose which columns to show and which to hide Many tags are not defined for my selections results, we would like to only have tags present in the results list in the tag column di...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

CSM concurrent Global Mirror point-in-time copies

We run with 4 Global Mirror failover/failback w/practice sessions that use the same Consistency Group hw session ID (0x3) and we would like to be able to perform the 'flash' point-in-time copies for all 4 sessions concurrently.
about 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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