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Include disk topology alerts in ESS gui

We recently had a SAS cable go bad on an ESS system. While gnrhealthcheck clearly showed there was a problem, there was no indication in the gui that anything was wrong. According to IBM support, this is a known issue. It would be helpful if the g...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

IBM Spetcrum Protect or SPP cross-hypervisor restore for image level backup (Azure to VMware , VMware to Azure)

Cross-hypervisor restore feature for image level backup (Azure to VMware , VMware to Azure) is a feature already supported in competitor solutions ie Commvault .
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

On-demand Backup of all SQL Database of the one instance

We need options to On-demand Backup of all SQL Database of the one instance.Currently we need to select one by one database to on-demand backup.Best way is to have the 2 options, select one database or all of an instance.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Support to backup S3-based on-premise Object storage (private cloud) to Tapes using ISP or ISPP

Object storage is trending these days and we want to be able to secure it using IBM Spectrum Protect or IBM SPP on tapes. Currently no option to do so on standard S3 protocol. Other vendors are supporting backing up S3-based object storage into ta...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Planned for future release

SSL management enhancement

I have 2 related requests: Currently SP clients above V8.12/7.1.8 use TLS/SSL by default only encrypt authentication and session meta data. Full session encryption requires that ssl yes be added to the client dsm.opt/dsm.sys. I would like to see t...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Provide SPP GUI Server for more platforms than VMWare and Hyper-V

The central Spectrum Protect Plus management server can be deployed as a virtual machine on VMWare or Hyper-V. But there are customers that want to protect workloads like Microsoft 365, Kubernetes, DB2, Mongo DB etc. with Spectrum Protect Plus, wh...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Remove -force option from stopsystem command when issued via the GUI (or make it optional)

When using the GUI (node actions -> power off) to power off a specific SVC node (eg a hardware repair action) the -force option is used in the command svctask stopsystem -force -gui -node x This bypasses the checks for volumes going offline or ...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Additional Filter Option for Storage Insights under RC Relationships.

When creating a automated report within SI, the section under remote copy / Remote Copy Relationships, I need a filter option to show and report on only RC Relationships that is not part of any RC Groups. The aim of this report is to report on RC ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SAP HANA backup status reporting in Spectrum Protect OC

Spectrum Protect Operations Center does not report nor is aware if a Backup is successful or if it is failed. Instead a log is created on every server which we have to manually parse and reactively report a backup failure. This is an effort since ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

TSM4VE backup schedule ends with RC=12 when there is no guest eligible for backup

Change the RC to 0 or 1 if no virtual guest is eligible for backup but the overall backup status is successful.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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