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    backup stgpool parallelization

    I would request to have backup stgpool of a source pool of type=disk parallelized either on a per volume base (as backup stgpool acts if the source pool is of type=file) or on the amount of data to process. When running backup stgpool with a sourc...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    SPP PLUS: FUNCTION TO OPEN/BROWSE ANY .EDB FILE AND EXTRAC ITS CONTENT INTO PST FILES WITHOUT EXCHANGE/API MMC(GUI)

    Develop a function for SPP PLUS software to read raw Exchange .EDB files without interaction with Exchange/API and browse the database content to extract all the mailboxes into PST files simultaneously.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Ability to delete volumes from vSnap storage.

    The ability to empty or move data from existing storage disks and then delete the disks volumes from a vSnap server would make the process of changing the underlying storage environment much easier. If we want to change out an EOS/EOL storage arra...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    DS8 IBM i Volumes Should Include Modern Sizes in Dropdown

    When creating IBM i volumes, the default size dropdown includes all the way from 8 GiB to 262.9 GiB, however with all of our modern IBM i environment, the minimum size we use for iASP at least is 477 GiB, which means that we always just have to ch...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Parallel disk merging and VM Creation during multiple VM restore.

    When we initiate multiple VM restore, we have observed that VM creation and disk merging is going in sequential manner. One VM is getting created at a time after disk merging process. Whereas if it is possible to perform parallel VM creation and d...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

    CDM - request to not wait for the Flashcopy to complete copying before ending the job in the storage controller

    - During restore the FC "volume snap" is currently mounted successfully via CDM- but no access is possible for an application e.g. VMware. - CDM waits for R/W operations until the complete FC is restored. Thus no immediate restore + use with CDM i...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Alert user when number of volumes assigned to a volume group is different than number of volumes assigned to host group

    A situation where an insufficient number of volumes are replicated in a DR scenario could result in a disaster. Alerting to the incorrect number of volumes being replicated could prevent this. The simplest way to determine the "correct" number of ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Add Year to the date/time stamp in the reports.

    Requirement to have the year in the time stamp, to allow for auditing trail of when the report was generated. Currently only the month and the day is provided in the report.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    SSL management enhancement

    I have 2 related requests: Currently SP clients above V8.12/7.1.8 use TLS/SSL by default only encrypt authentication and session meta data. Full session encryption requires that ssl yes be added to the client dsm.opt/dsm.sys. I would like to see t...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

    Enable STG RULES to perform dual copy to tape of Object Client data

    There is currently a limitation in the product whereby the STG Rules feature cannot be used to create double copies of Object Client data received from IBM FUSION using the Amazon S3 protocol. The only option available to copy this type of data is...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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