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Provide container pool data protection on same SP instance on disk/NAS devices

Container pool (directory pool) data protection on the same SP instance is currently only supported to tape devices (or VTL). We would require to protect data and store it on a NFS device mounted on to the same SP instance. Moreover the SP instanc...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Allow client to choose ciphers for HMC's

The z15 allows the customer to pick the ciphers they want for https: to HMC's
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Planned for future release

Need to improve file restore option to assign limited restore permission

Need to improve file restore option to assign limited restore permission because in the current version we have to implement multiple settings.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow pending glacier protocol requests automatic clean up on SP server for failed or aborted restores

Design of the code needs to clean up automatically on the SP server left over glacier restore requests coming from Spectrum Protect Plus when the client (here SPP) has failed or the user cancelled the active restore process.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Bug in Storwize 8.1.3.5 - Object Type 'emailuser' expects 0 objects

When attempting to prepare the 'svc.config.recover.sh' script, the task fails as the system finds 2 objects set of type 'emailuser' (e.g. 1. the default IBM call home email address and 2. the local customer email address). The extract below shows ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Fully decompress files on read

Allow a flag to be set on a file, fileset or filesystem to have files fully decompress on read.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

VM Replication at Host Level

Ability to replicate virtual machines at the Hypervisor host level, allowing VMs to failover to secondary site and continue services, without the need for restore from TSM backup. This would be a compliment to the backup and recovery services prov...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Allow SP for VE for Hyper-v REST API timeout to be adjustable

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment for Hyper-V 8.1.9 GUI times out after 15-20 minutes, and disconnects REST API session, making all manual backup running via Data Protection for Hyper-V GUI to fail and process status no longer visible. Plea...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Access to all functions in SPP through WAN using SSL

It is possible to connect to some of the functions in the SPP server GUI, but not all of them. E.g: accessing the Policy Overview page. The GUI tries to access the public IP address / host name from inside the firewall, and this causes the problem.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

File Audit Logging x Object/S3

With Scale we have FAL for NFS and CIFS, for Object/S3 we have the capability to have the mapping for the SWIFT API user only and not with the specific user or application that is submitting the request (put, get, etc). Our client is asking thew c...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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