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Backing up data to Replication Spectrum protect server when Production TSM server id down for many days.

When the production Spectrum Protect server is down or having Disaster scenario, SP admins should go through tiresome steps to backup the data to replication SP Server. For each client, we will need to below steps for customers having 4000+ client...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

WebClient file restore GUI can handle the password change when admin using FORCEPwr=yes

The WebClient file restore GUI can not handle the password change when admin using FORCEPwr=yes.This is neccessary to give customers the an webclient access which is uesed just by the person who is asked for web access to restore.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Need to add the functionality for VM multi-writer enabled disks backup. (Object. CBT-enabled VM having multi-writer disk(s))

Hello Team, We configured few VM backup In IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and those are getting failed due to multi-writer enabled on their disks. too resolve this issue, we raised a case (case # TS008530431). We get an update that in case is there is ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

VADP Proxy should be available as an appliance

The SPP server is available as an appliancevSnap server is available as an appliancebut VADP Proxy requires install of RHEL and installation of VADP Proxy software.This doesn't make any sense since the VADP Proxy already are part of the SPP server...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Server for SLES 15.X

No versions of Spectrum Protect are currently support SLES15
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

'Audit report required for 'Days Without Access' function of physical volume pool

I would like to be able to obtain an audit report on reclamations made for the 'Days without Access' function.
about 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Storwize should automatically mark errors repaired

SVC, Storwize: When hardware fails and is replaced on Storwize, the system should recognize the replacement and mark the error as fixed automatically. This is performed by a CE on the Enterprise supported systems. But on customer managed systems t...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Functionality already exists

Add GRID REQUEST Licenced volser Information to the LI REQ command

Add GRID REQUEST API output to the LI REQ,libname,GRID,REQUEST command so that we can fetch the licences volsers information from z/OS HOST itself.
8 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Needs more information

User unable to query fileset if permissions are root as owner and user as group

It is not unusual for user directories permissions to be set where root is the owner and the user is the group for operational reasons. However this leads to the situation where user have a degraded level of service as they cannot query their file...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Sp. Virtualise for Public Cloud support for Google Cloud

IBM has responded to a global RFP for HSBC which will replace 60PB of EMC Tier storage. It was made clear to us that without support for cloud integration / tiering to Google (HSBCs strategic cloud provider) our chances would be slim
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration