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    Show Unprotected VM detail from Protection Summary

    The Protection Summary section of the Policy Overview page shows protected and unprotected Virtual Machines. However I would expect to be able to click on the 'Unprotected' icon, for example, and get a list of unprotected VM's, but this is not the...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Multiple Recovery Volumes from same SGC Backup volume

    The ability to have multiple R (Recovery) Volumes from the same B (Backup) volumes would support where one R volume is presented to infrastructure for forensic analysis and cleaning etc., and another R volume from the same B source presented to ot...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    S3 Object Agent: Allow non ISPP application the use of "coldpool"

    In the actual release of Spectrum Protect (8.1.12) the use of the "coldpool" in a Object Domain of Spectrum Protect is limited to the archive feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.External S3 clients are can only use a directory container pool as a...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Session recovery via query

    CSM is currently designed to stop monitoring underlying replication in an event where certain types of communication failures occur with a subsystem (say after panic/warmstart). It's designed this way to not inadvertently monitor relationships tha...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect OSSM support for SPP on Windows platform

    We have many customers using SP server on Windows and running SPP in Hyper-V on top of it, we want to get rid of SPP vSnap but we can't do it when using SP server on Windows. And we can't deploy SP on Linux with SPP in KVM because SPP in KVM is no...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    Enhancements to MI TS7700 dual control function

    When dual control is enabled, only user modification (for example password) is requested an approval. So it is currently possible to delete all users (admintrator, operator ...) without double control. For security reasons, would it be possible to...
    about 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Ability to backup Oracle databases (11gR2+) running on Oracle Enterprise Linux

    Ability to backup Oracle databases (11gR2+) running on Oracle Enterprise Linux.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    IBM Storage Ceph alerting, reporting, and probe frequency

    Alex manages the Kyndryl team that supports FedEx Ground, a very significant IBM i and FlashSystem and DSI client. We are implementing Ceph as Long Term archive backend for the DSI Virtual Tape Library and the Kyndryl team needs to be able to moni...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Add the ability to use RSA for MFA on TS7700s / TSSC

    Add the ability to use RSA for MFA on TS7700s / TSSC On the DS8K line we can use RSA for MFA we'd just like to have this ability for IBM tape so we can use the same method for both IBM storage solutions. As of now I believe the only way for MFA on...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    Option "Skipmissingsyswfiles" to be allowed in the Client Options Set

    The "Skipmissingsyswfiles" option is needed to stop SP/TSM from skipping system state files that will be needed for a "Bare Metal Restore" (BMR). Currently this option can only be set in the DSM.OPT file. We want to be able to set this option in t...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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