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Isolate proxies to only backup clients in its respective esxi cluster

Need the ability to isolate proxies to only backup clients in its respective esxi cluster.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Support for TSM USS Client

System: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for z/OS USS Client and API (5698-B22)Actor: ITERGO Informationstechnologie TSM B/A is a standard product spreaded over all different kinds of operating systems. For z/OS, TSM USS Client is used to backup and res...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect - Add functionality to the deactivate data command

Expand the deactivate data command to apply to other clients besides Oracle. It is urgently needed for SQL backup clients. The deactivate data command should be expanded to work on SQL, DB2, Informix, and all other API-style backup products.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

OpenStack backup with Spectrum Protect Plus

Our important customer is asking for remote API backup of OpenStack environment. Preferred support with Spectrum Protect Plus (as the extend container support) but Spectrum Protect API combination could be another variant.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Inclusion of a REST API to interface with the TS7700 MI

Add a REST API to the TS7700 MI to gather operational and performance statistics.
almost 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

distributed "lsof" or "fuser"?

Currently, there is no way of getting information on open files/directories per device/fileset/subdirectory on any node. The option to run "mmdsh -N all lsof /my/path/to/fileset" isn't really feasible on large clusters. As a distributed file syste...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Need function in Spectrum Protect Plus to delete all backups of SQL Server database

Customer requires functionality in Spectrum Protect Plus to delete all backups of a SQL Server database. This is related to GDPR.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Future consideration

Reallowing non-root Spectrum Scale connections to Spectrum Discover after ESS security enhancements

Spectrum Scale connections are considered the most effective way to provide metadata from IBM ESS storage to Spectrum Discover since both systems are IBM-based. The following IBM video guide outlines the steps for correctly set up Scale connection...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Functionality already exists

Increase the number of nodes in a Storwize cluster

Increase the number of nodes in the Storwize cluster. Users want an SVC cluster to have 16-32 nodes.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Support for additional third-party filers

SI has fairly limited support for third-party filers.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Not under consideration

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