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Support for Backing up Cassandra Database with Spectrum Protect Plus

Customer is in planning stages to deploy Cassandra Database in their environment and require the capability to use their current Spectrum Protect licenses to provide data protection to these applications.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DS8K Metromirror Recovery Method

In order to quickly recovery a metromirror relationship (at 800KM) the copy sets had to be switched to Global Copy Mode and then Switched back once resynched. This should not be an undocumented recovery method. This should be automatic behavior fr...
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale REST API Endpoint for mmafmconfig

We need a way that the Spectrum Scale REST API exposes the mmafmconfig command. In particular the mmafmconfig enable <fileset> is important for us.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

A new policy update from BA client .optfile that does not allow overwrite a management class from BA client.

A server admin can update the .optfile from BA client by human error causing an overwrite of a management class at Spectrum Protect server, that is causing unexpected expiration of backups. For example, a configuration mistake pointing the .optfil...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

audit container markdamaged needs to update inventory objects as damaged

Any process that marks extents damaged should queue a process to mark those objects damaged which rely on the extents. AUDIT CONTAINER ACTION=MARKDAMAGED only marks extents damaged, so inventory objects stay not-damaged. Even later, if they are ac...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Support of custom tolerations for Fusion base, backup services and non-core services

Reduce VPC requirements on worker nodes, reducing cost of CPK and OCP licenses allowing base & backup services to run on infra-nodes
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

CSM - Automatically Synchronise Standby Server Sessions After IPL.

We have two DS8000 Controllers in a full MM - Hyperswap Configuration. We have two CSM Sessions running on two different LPARS in our SYSPLEX. ( LPAR1 (Primary ) and LPAR2 (Standby) ) We observe that after IPL of the LPAR2 ( Configured as the Stan...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Control and TS7700 (VTS)

Today, customer is managing around thirty TS7700 units. He does not have the possibility to easily check the configuration on each one to be sure that the configuration corresponds to their need. Also, in case of problem, it's very time consuming ...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Planned for future release

Multiple Retentions Standard object storage

The ability to have multiple retentions in Standard Object Storage going to a repository server on Spectrum Protect.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Supported IBM Spectrum Protect Backup/Archive Client is needed for Red Hat Version 8

No supported IBM Spectrum Protect Backup/Archive Client for Redhat Version 8 currently exists.Unfortunately, So far there are no news or any estimated time when Spectrum Protect products will support the Redhat V8.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

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