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"Totals" option for adding up how Volumes and Utilization per Application

When certain reports are selected, the ability to SUM certain fields that are selected into a "Total Summary" at the top of a report would very helpful. In the reports lets say we select Volume Report and then select the columns we want to see. Be...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Provide SPP report download in .csv format

Customer would like to be able to download reports from SPP in .csv format.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus backup support for VMWare Tanzu TKG container environment

An important italian customer with a large SP and SPP installation has already implemented OpenShift backup with SPP. He has also container environments based on VMWare Tanzu TKG and he needs to protect such environment. My request is about the su...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Method for monitoring/alerting on performance of cache to S3 data movement

There is currently no method to monitor the migration of local cache storage to S3 object storage. There is therefore no easy way to know if data are being moved and if they are moving sufficiently quickly to be completed before the next backup. I...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

Support more than 32 active GM Sessions

Increase the maximum supported active GM sessions in DS8880 from current hardware limitation of 32 active sessions to at least 64 active sessions . For example the IBM SVC support up to 256 - https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S101...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

When converting/migrating to container pool, add option to uncompress/dedup/compress legacy-compressed data

When migrating/converting legacy storage pools to the new container-type storage pool, it should be possible to specify on the command line, that "legacy" data during migration/conversion should be uncompressed, dedupped (if not already dedupped) ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Native LDAP for DS Storage

Description - Include native LDAP feature for DS8K frames, currently only DS888x frames have it built in w/ CSM Current Workaround - no workaround
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Average DS8K power consumption command

My customer is interested in monitoring the power consumption of the DS8K. Apparently there's no command or any other easy way to obtain it, so they would like to be able to get the average power consumption with a command in a similar way as they...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Document update to be more precise in what is not supported

In the Spectrum Protect Server document, "Configuring clustered environments" section, there is a line below. > You can use other cluster products with IBM Spectrum Protect; however, documentation is not available and support is limited. https:...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

IBM SPP to allow MS-SQL Restore to Standby State

Customer would like to have the ability to restore MS-SQL database to the Standby state.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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