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    ADHOC Backend TB License Measurement (audit license with command instead of OC)

    - The Backend TB Licenseing will be measured by SUR Occupancy and SUR Retention Occupancy every 7 days after startup of Spectrum protect Server from OC and shown in report as backend license value.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    SpVirt installation automation

    The goal is to automate the initial installation wizard, to make the installation of tens of the same systems easier (use case = 60 FS5035s) Currently you have to first enter an IP address via the Technical Port. Having to enter that IP manually w...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Webclient for 7.1.8 and 8.1.2

    please know that in the Healthcare and Hospital environment, the Web Client is very highly used, and extremely important. Your statement that the Web client is not needed because the BA client GUI is available and can be used. However, you fail to...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

    Ability to modify retention of individual VMs along with their historical data

    Customer states that they are unable to extend/change the retention period for a VM along with the historical backup data if requested by groups within their environment without changing the setting for the entire SLA. This is not viable as it res...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    SCSI UNMAP on pool level enable/ disable

    Enabling/disabling backend SCSI UNMAP on pool level.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    SafeGuarded backup allocation using a pool concept

    Customer is running Safe Guarded backups for a month (31 days) worth of backups on a daily schedule. They have around 3500 volumes. Many of these are involved in DB2 and ADBAS databses. These database volumes (as well as some system volumes) under...
    over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 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
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Support 256 or more cluster watches per cluster.

    Only 25 cluster watches are supported per cluster, but we need 256 at least.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    CSM support for cascaded 4-site replication

    Our 4-site environment is a cascaded replication from A-B-C-D where A-B is metro mirror, B-C is a Global mirror, C-D is a global copy. I see in CSM 6.2.6, there is a 4-site support added but it is a MMGMGCreplication., which is A-B (MM), A-C (GM),...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Future consideration

    Support TSM Storage Agent to be used in virtual machines for "Serverfree" backup to shared disk

    IBM GPFS is a supported file system for performing "server free" backups to shared disks (similar to LANfree backups, which are going from a TSM client system with TSM for SAN directly to a tape). At the moment, this method (Server free backup to ...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

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