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    ISPP: Support btrfs - Single file restore & File indexing

    We see a huge lack of compatibility in ISPP for ALL Suse customers worldwide.currently btfrs is not supported, which will cause two main issues:- Fileindexing is not supported, so direct single file restore is not possible- If you do an "instant a...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Ability to obtain environmental information

    Many customers want to know in live environmental information such as total power usage (in watts) and inlet temperature (in degrees Celsius) on their TS7700 units. This information is available on DS8K storage arrays via GUI or CLI commands but i...
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Reusedelay-like option in Spectrum Protect Plus, similar to the option in Spectrum Protect

    A reconciliation option between vSnap contents and SPP catalog, in the event that an SPP catalog restore is needed, so that at least some backup recoveries can be facilitated from those snaps missing meta data.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Operations Center Reports, provide a test button of custom SQL

    Today when creating a custom report in Operations Center the interface automatically sends sql select queries to the server to check if the work. This could be done multiple time during the time when you edit the report, that puts a lot of load on...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

    Support for ROCE Tape drives in ISP

    Hello, If ISP would support ROCE tape drives like TS1155/TS1160 this would deliver following advantages:- ISP could run in a VM and support Tape which is currently not possible with FC Tape drives due to Fibrechannel limitations. - ROCE attached t...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    vSNAP space reclamation

    Currently, when a pool's capacity decreases ie by the expiration of backups, the vSNAP server doesn't seem to issue any kind of zero-ing or SCSI Unmap command to let the underlying infrastructure reclaim the space.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus add Zero Trust Compliance to match Spectrum Protect Implementation

    We are looking for Dual admin execution for removal of backup data. Similar to Spectrum Protect.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Add GM capability between sites 1&2 and 3&4 to 4 site replication enhanced solution

    Currently the 4 site replication enhanced solution allows a client to switch from MM to GC between sites 1&2 or between sites 3&4. Typically this functionality would be used if the MM replication was causing a significant temporary product...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Accelerate re-balance actions when adding new ECE nodes into existing RG

    Partner was opened two cases about expanding ECE nodes to existing RG. The re-balance progress was very slowly. The action was last for 3 months when adding 3 new ECE nodes into existing 5 ECE nodes topology.This is not a acceptable solution to cu...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Support current versions of Storage Scale in the Storage Protect for Space management client for Linux. Currently this would be Scale 5.2.2.x and 5.2.3.x.

    This would benefit all Storage Protect for Space management customers who are also Storage Scale System customers, or who use Storage Scale and want to run up to date versions of Scale. The latest version of Storage Protect for Space management cl...
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Planned for future release

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