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enhance command line output

The text screen output from commands entered in dsmadmc should be enhanced. Many columns are too small and cause wrapping already for relatively short common values, making it hard to read. On the other hand, much space is wasted by separating col...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

NDMP - NAS backups - Encrypted communications with TLS 1.2/3

Required to secure communications in line with all other client server operations
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Option to always retain the last version

We need an option for the retention perion in IBM Spectrum Control Plus, so that we always have an backup.option: always retain the last version
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Balance workload over ISLs based on latency, not throughput

In ESC when there is congestion on the ISLs in one fabric, SVC should be able to detect the increasing latency on the operations (mainly writes), and then send them through the healthy fabric. Current behavior is to balance the traffic between the...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Ability to name backup

Customer needs the ability to specify the name of backup jobs.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Mount retention for sequential file volumes

Currently, mount retention is disable for sequential file device classes. In many cases in real-world use, this can cause a storm of mount/unmount operations if any migration, reclamation, backup, or restore processes rapidly cycle between a handf...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

AWS PrivateLink Endpoint support for S3

It is desired to use an AWS PrivateLink endpoint to access AWS S3 as an object storage provider to Spectrum Protect Plus, with AWS S3 region support. To do this, it must be possible to register AWS S3 to Spectrum Protect Plus by specifying an arbi...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

ANR2836E Policy creation failed because no storage pool is available in which to save client deployment packages.

Since I upgraded to ISP Version 8.1.7 I get the following errors: 15:01:47 ANR2836E Policy creation failed because no storage pool is available in which to save client deployment packages.15:01:47 ANR2837E The creation of the IBM_DEPLOY_CLIENT pol...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Safeguard Copy to S3 storage

Allow the ability to schedule safeguard copies off site to S3 storage either on another platform or in the cloud.
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Disk and Replication Reporting in Dashboard and Reports

Disk Reporting Want to see capacity used, capacity free, capacity growth % in the last 24 hours, 48 hours, 1 week, 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, 1 year, 3 years e.t.cInfo should be available on the Dashboard, in ackup Storage and in reports Nothing o...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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