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Multipile tags created via single REST API request

Currently, tags must be created one by one using a POST request to spectrum discover. Attempting to send a list of tags in JSON like: [ { "tag" : "test1" , "type" : "Characteristics" , "value" : "[ \" True \" , \" False \" ]" } , { "tag" : "test2"...
over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration

Apply disk fw without specifying all disk Ids with comma separator

When applying disk fw we usually need to specify which drive Ids to be selected, separated with a comma i.e 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13instead it would be nice to only type a range of Ids 0-13
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Alter SGC volume threshold percentage via DSCLI

Currently 85% is the default set in IBM DS8k for SGC volumes threshold. To modify this percentage and to get alerting much earlier, this can be done only by IBM DS8K support team by modifying structure csSfgContNotifThreshold. If the option is ava...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Flexibility to connect SVC for Public CLoud to any Cloud Provider

In the SVC User Group, we had a conversation with Michelle. In working for the Federal Government, we have franchise customers who have a desire to decide their own Cloud provider, but then utilize us to provision and configure storage for them. W...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Identification of offsite tapes when a SPP archive restore (with SP) is made ?

SPP archives are sent to LTO tapes with SP.Tapes doesnt stay unto library. if a restore job from an spp archive is executed, we need to know all requested tapes to insert into library when a restore from an archive SPP is made.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backup of NFS file systems without mounting them.

Currently our customer use IBM Spectrum Protect in their on-premise archiving. They are in their journey to cloud and want to implement an archiving robust solution, so they started to evaluate multiple tools including IBM SP. They are requesting ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Hana DB & Log filsystem split

For our regular restore test we do export/import between zone server and central one.If we want to export a DB backup and 7 days of logs we have the problem that all of this goes to the same filesystem /tdpmux and if we export from a ranged period...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

IPv6 Support for NDMP

NDMP-Backup of NAS-Systems (CDOT CAB) not possible in IPv6-Only environment. Datamover creation can't resolve AAAA records, NAS Node needs v4 LIF to open connection to tape server. First step would be to tell the storage system only the DNS name o...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect - update LASTACC_TIME when a target node is replicated to

Hi, In Spectrum Protect, when a node in a replicated pair is replicated to (when it is the target) the LASTACC_TIME does not update. We often use the LASTACC_TIME to determine if a node is still in use, if the LASTACC_TIME is over X days then we d...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Logfiles that would include all execution outputs

Currently the TDPSQLC.exe has a LOGFILE option that only outputs the summary of its execution. Today, if I wish to see the summary and the execution of each database backup I need to provide both the LOGFILE and a redirected log path such that I c...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

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