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    Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time

    Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Not under consideration

    In local Encryption Context , Customer have no wy to check encryption status. This lead into long run discussion with no ending when need to supply encryption evidence to SecurityAudit Team"

    When only have FC5272 using local encryption mgr, for data at rest . VTS admin people cannot supply trustable evidences to Security Team about the encryption status. We raise a case TS015965829 , we were explain, the the VTS MI data encryption tab...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Functionality already exists

    IBM CSM API Should Show all DS8 Session/LSS/SSID In Hexadecimal to Correctly Reflect The Values on the Hardware

    We recently encountered a discrepancy in our API reporting from CSM where the Session ID was not matching what is in the GUI (and on the actual DS8 hardware), and it turned out that from the CSM/web/sessions URI, all of the session/LSS/SSID values...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Is a defect

    V3700 ThinProvisioning does not work as advertised

    V3700 Thin Provisioning does not work as advertised.We consider "IBM Storwize V3700: Ideal for VMware environments" => http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/tsf03029usen/TSF03029USEN.PDFSince Storwize does not currently support the VMware...
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Restore SQL to the same SQL Server with another name

    Customer wants to restore a DB to the same SQL system with a new name. This is only possible when defining a different data path. The restore works fine but the name of the data- and logfile will be the same as the original files. example: We try ...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    DRP Pool -> improve vDisk copy delete function and progress

    Deleting a vDisk copy in the DRP pool can be a long process if the copy is compressed or deduplicated. Unfortunately, you can not figure out how long it will take. This would require a display in the GUI and a command on the command line. During t...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    SCDM: Import existing GMCV relationships into CDM - take ownership back after change

    SCDM only lets you create brand new relationships when managing a GMCV configuration. If existing relationships are present on the volumes (even if they were created by SCDM) you have to destroy them and then recreate - full initial re-sync necess...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    Enable option to manually add ESXi host for restore onto

    Restore function request – Recover to ESXi host - should option to manually add rather than just poll inventorised ESXi hosts
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Enable the setting of a VM name on clone and production restores

    Enable the ability to set a VM name on clone and production restores and on move into production and clone operations for active clones (test restores)
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    VM details in Dashboard

    Show list of VMs protected and SLA protected under and VMs not protected as a list in the Dashboard. Customers want to know which VMs have successfully backed up overnight and which have failed. The Dashboard does a good job of showing this at an ...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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