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    Storage Agent write to cloud container

    Would be very useful to allow a storage agent to write directly to an on-prem or off-site cloud bucket. In larger environment this would help spread the load and improve backup performance. Then allow the Storage agent to read from on-prem S3 and ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Enhance Spectrum Protect CMS feature

    Starting 8.1.13 baclient / OC version, CMS is integrated with the baclient code. Right now, only part of the relevant baclient logs for investigations are being reported. It could be very helpful for “remote” diagnostics that the CMS is able to gr...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Increased number of concurrent SSH connections and allow us to manage open ssh connections

    Allow an increased number of available ssh sessions into an SVC and allow us to terminate or timeout hung or idle connections.
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

    The Menu ?DS8000 Paths? should include the Location column

    If you add a storage connection at the “Storage System” menu you are able to give the new storage system a “description” at the Location column. This is very helpful to distinguish the storage systems. It would be very helpful to display this colu...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    User unable to query fileset if permissions are root as owner and user as group

    It is not unusual for user directories permissions to be set where root is the owner and the user is the group for operational reasons. However this leads to the situation where user have a degraded level of service as they cannot query their file...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Incremental Restore

    It would be useful if TSM for VE provided "incremental restore" functionality, using the Change Block Tracking feature, so as to perform a restore of a VM by only restoring data which has changed since a specific point in time.This is possible wit...
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    Encryption of Server2Server Volumes

    We'd like to get a possibility to use encryption on any device class protected by the current IBM Spectrum Protect Instance. Especially using server2server virtual volumes on another IBM Spectrum Protect Server, needs the data stored on the target...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    lowering the permissions to view access logs

    User permission role set to "VIEW LOG" will to give user access to all LOGS.It will not be able to see "FAILED LOGIN". Only SUPERUSER can see this type of entries. That permissions are to height to check logs only, especially in third party script...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    make the TS4500 network 172.31.1.x changeable for all octets

    Let make changeable the customer the hole IP address of the TSSC network 172.31.1.x/24 inte of only the last octet.
    over 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Operations Center should display the TDP Client version as well as BA Client API version

    In Spectrum Protect OC. I have TDP SQL clients showing version 8.1.7.1. That version does not exist for TDP SQL clients but it does exist for Windows BA client which means that the TDP node is showing the BA client version.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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