IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Support for Backing up Cassandra Database with Spectrum Protect Plus

    Customer is in planning stages to deploy Cassandra Database in their environment and require the capability to use their current Spectrum Protect licenses to provide data protection to these applications.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    TS7700 Rsyslog add possibility to select log types that are sent using RSyslog

    From the MI we can select the messages that we want to send to a Rsyslog server but not the log types. From the documentation: Items 0 through 15 are system defaults and items 16 through 18 are specific to TS7700. So we wish to be able to select o...
    about 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Cancel process ALL

    Add extra Cancel Process options - Cancel Process ALL- Cancel pro migration (or cancel migration)- Cancel pro backup (or cancel backup) For each process name a Cancel command. Cancel Expiration and Cancel Export already exists.
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Mobile usability for SI

    Unlike Spectrum Control, which requires access to a corporate network, presumably through either a VPN or a physical (wired or wireless), it is possible to access SI anywhere. The app appears to be responsive (sizing correctly when viewed on a pho...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    TS7700 Set LVOL to non used state for removing a TMC range of tapes

    The customer wants a way to set a volser or a range of volsers to a TMC Delete state so that the volume will not being mounted as a scratch in preparation to remove the volser or range.
    over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Planned for future release

    Support SMB Persistent Handles

    Hi, When trying to copy files using rsync via SMB shares exported by Spectrum Scale, we are experiencing errors after session disconnection\ces node failovers. currently, scale does not provide persistent\durable file handles. we are kindly asking...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus - bring greater visibility on data and metadata if both do not match

    TS003754429It was recommended for a RFE to be opened to give greater visibility into what is on the vSNAPs matches what is in the SPP database/catalog.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Supported IBM Spectrum Protect Backup/Archive Client is needed for Red Hat Version 8

    No supported IBM Spectrum Protect Backup/Archive Client for Redhat Version 8 currently exists.Unfortunately, So far there are no news or any estimated time when Spectrum Protect products will support the Redhat V8.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

    Update CopyOperator role in IBM Spectrum Virtualize

    IBM SVC v8.2.1.9IBM CSM v6.2.8 >Trying to execute CSM FlashCopy sessions to SVC controllers and CSMSERVICE account needs 'Administrator' role access as the 'CopyOperator' privelidges are insufficent. > Unfortunately the 'CopyOperator' group ...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    Support vSnap migration by re-mapping the back-end volumes to another server

    Support a vSnap migration from back-end disks from one server to a different server by re-mapping the back-end volumes to the new server
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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