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SVC to allow more than 4 remote partnerships

In current situation an SVC cluster can only have 3 Remote Copy partnerships. Proposed resolution: Enlarge the number of RC partnerships Business impact: RC connection between more than 4 SVCs
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Test Restore Periodically

Restore customer data Periodically without needing of system outage or stand by system.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Storage Insights Pro Support for HDS Ops Center

Hitachi is advising customers to switch to Ops Center. SI Pro does not support Ops Center, only Command Suite. SI Pro must incorporate Ops Center in order to be compatible with Hitachi devices.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SPP - offload (copy) or archive a specific version (not only the last one)

currently, a copy or an archive can be made via scheduler or via "planning" tab.in both cases, only the last version is copied or archived.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Configure TSM4VE without admin account on Spectrum protect server

Make it possible to configure the TSM4VE interface without the need for an administrative account on the Spectrum protect server. Currently TSM4VE configuration needs an administrative SP account in order to configure the product - if no admin is ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Summary Report

Need a dashboard style report showing key performance figures for management. Current reports are PDFs containing long lists of information. There is no equivalent of the ‘General Operations' report that is produced by Operations Center for Spectr...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Unprotected VMs View

At present it is quite hard to answer the question ‘what am I not backing up'. SPP displays a summary of this on the home page (Source Protection) and the Policy Overview page. On neither of these can I just click on the number shown and see a lis...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP : User to do FLR limitations

The user defined to catalog file metadata has to have all sudo permissions and this can be a security problem. Our Customer wants the list of sudo commands necessaries to catalog file metadata and restore files in the servers.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CSM scheduledtask based on calendar day

We need scheduling at specific calendar day/timeSelecting single or multiple day
about 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Needs more information

Possibility to create volume clusters as host clusters

Quite often I have to attach the same set of volumes to the same set of hosts. I would be handy to have volume clusters as host clusters.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration