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    Lack of anomaly scanning integration with IBM Spectrum Protect Family

    Lack of anomaly scanning integration to detect, diagnose and recover clean copies from a Cyber attack with IBM Spectrum Protect Family.Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption an IBM supported Cyber Resiliency solution.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

    SQL log backup status

    The status of the SQL log backup is found only in the job log. We would like the log backups to be more visible and easy to check for success or failure. The Dashboard or on the section named Application - SQL - Backup would be helpful.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Dual LCC option for single frame libraries

    In a single frame configuration there is no redundancy for the library control card. This is a single point of failure and can cause lengthy outages. Dual LCC option would eliminate this.
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Capacity Pool Forecasting Report

    Customer is looking for some kind of report which they can follow the pool capacity usage with a line of threshold and also a forecasting curve where they can see when the system will reach the full capacity based on predictions of previous usage.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

    Storage Scale - A GPFS node with multiple nic drivers (ip addresses) should not be able to rejoin the cluster when the daemon interface is down

    Our storage nodes have multiple nic drivers and IP addresses (RoCE network). When the nic for daemon IP is down (dev bond0), it will still keep trying to rejoin the cluster again and again, because its another nic (dev bond1) is still working. But...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Application Inventory Job Change Report/Alert

    An Oracle database that exists on the database server is no longer being found or displayed in SPP. This is not considered a failure, so no reporting is provided. Customer needs an alert or report to see the changes to the inventory job. The parti...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Remove the need for reboot when installing BA and TDP clients on Windows

    For the GUI to work some 2012 libraries has to be installed. This requires a reboot. IBM should change the code so that the BA and TDP clients are not dependant of additional software that requires a reboot. A reboot requires downtime and must be ...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Allow user to display "volume full name" and "volume short name" at his conveniance using existing table twistie

    In huges banking Z/os csm implamentation, we can deal with many DS8000 having each more than 100 000 volumes. Having this ability will avoid fingerchecks when usin CSM GUI to perform troubleshooting tasks when things are not work as expected.
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Migrate data from Spectrum Protect (Existing S3 pools to different Cloud Object Storage)

    To migrate data from existing IBM Clever Safe Object Storage bucket to different S3 compatible buckets using Spectrum Protect TSM server.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    SI Pro updating frequency- SI is not updating some very crucial statistics very often

    mQRYFpfptBannerStart This Message Is From an External Sender This message came from outside your organization. Hi Manish We have noticed that SI is not updating some very crucial statistics very often. For an example, volume group snapshots and po...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

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