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Spectrum Protect Plus support for HNAS CSI Driver

Hitachi HNAS CSI Driver support is needed to backup Openshift persistent volumes with IBM's Spectrum Protect Plus. HNAS CSI Driver Documentation URL link: https://knowledge.hitachivantara.com/Documents/Storage/NAS_Platform/Best_practices/Hitachi_N...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Currency Support for spectrum protect for Snapshot

We missing the Support of Spectrum Protect for Snapshot on rhel7.6 x86_64 Systems. Today the prereq checker complain that only 7.5 are supported. We use the snapshot function for db2 here.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Planned for future release

Preventive Function to corrupt a volume as flashcopy target if the volume is scsi reserved

If a volume is mounted and used by a OS and V7000 execute flashcopy to the volume as target, the volume is corrupted by occurring inconsistent with filesystem on the OS. The our client strongly request an optional function to prevent the situation...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

« Key Management Interoperability Protocol » (KMIP) support

We would like the IBM TS4500 library to support the KMIP protocol in order to use a different encryption key manager than the IBM SGKLM software
8 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Expand SP S3 object client interface to allow targeting tape for users outside of SPP

Multiple customers have requested that we allow Spectrum Protect to receive data via S3 and store that data on tape. They need a deep/cold archiving solution with air-gap and optional immutability and encryption at-rest support.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Need support of Power 9 Compression HW chip on AIX Client for TSM Server and Client

Hellowe have implemented a new Backup LAN with CISCO ACI Network 40 GBit and made backup over this seperate lan to tsm serverWe need to do a compression on the TSM Client side because the TSM Servers has currently not the capabilities to store unc...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Movement of Config node without node reboot

Ties into RFE 114313.command structure or flag that can be used to set the next targeted config node, then be able to execute the movement of the config node without requiring a reboot of the current config node.
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

adding back CLOSE_WRITE to watchfolder and mmwatch

as a customer , we need to get informed , when a file gets closed, but only, if the file was changed ... we are not interessted on CLOSEs , when the file content was not changed. To sort out millions of false positives of thise unchanged CLOSE cal...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

When attemting to start a DP for SQL DB restore it starts immediately without warning

When the customer starts a DB restore it starts immediately without warning the customer that the restore will be done to the existing database. A warning message should appear to the customer before starting the restore explaining that the "Resto...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 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...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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