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    External storage level immutability integration in application level

    Currently there is a workaround provided by Dell to present Data Domain DD Boost storage units as BoostFS mount points and eventually storage pool to Storage Protect server. In this way, one can take advantage of high deduplication rate, encryptio...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Faster fiber channel interfaces for LTO drives

    Recent generations of proprietary IBM tape formats (TS1160 and TS1170) support 16 Gbps, we would like to see LTO drives support this as well. 16 Gbps (or faster) Fiber Channel interfaces are necessary to get full performance from modern LTO drives...
    about 2 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 2 Planned for future release

    Option to turn off sending report attachments as a zip file

    Currently when you create a report in SI and chose to have it emailed, attachments are always sent as a zip file. Clients that block file attachment extensions at the domain level are unable to receive these reports.
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Integrate Departments/Applications/Groups with ServiceNow - sync server associations for reporting

    Integrate ServiceNow's CMDB (or Configuration items) with the servers in Spectrum Storage Insights and retrieve Business Line and Application associations
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    SPP Report section is limited and restricted by predefined shape which cant cover customer needs.

    We need to have option to remove lines from report to report just relevant data for customer. For example: Predefined VM Backup History report contain : SLA Policy, Protection Time, Status Backup, Storage Backup, Size, Backup Speed,VM: HOSTNAME,Hy...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Improve AFM to handle hard links correctly

    As per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.2?topic=limitations-afm-afm-dr support for hard links in AFM is very constrained. This is especially problematic for the AFM data migration use case outlined here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/s...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Linux autostart two Spectrum Protect scheduler services using init.d to autostart services for two nodes on the same server

    The Spectrum Protect scheduler services doesn't auto start scheduler services post reboot for two nodenames.. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-protect/8.1.6?topic=spso-setting-client-scheduler-process-run-as-background-task-start-automatically...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Future consideration

    Export operations increased to 256kB blocksize

    IBM labs has detected Export operations blocksize to be a performance bottleneck.All other tape operations are said to use 256kB blocksize whilst Export operations use 32kB blocksize. The request is to start using 256kB blocksize for Export operat...
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

    .tsv file extension should not take precedence for filetype .tsv.gz

    We have encountered an issue with applications agents and scanning files of the type ".*.gz", for example "some_file.nii.gz" or "other_file.tsv.gz". The filetype registered after scanning a directory containing these types of files is often wrong....
    about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    Oracle log backup status

    The status of the Oracle log backup is found only in the job log. We would like the log backups to be more visible and easy to check for success or failure. If a failure of the Oracle DB is bad, we need to see a failure on the backup job on the da...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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