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    SPP should support running different code levels on the SPP server and vSnap servers during migration/upgrades

    SPP customers running a single SPP server with many vSnap servers need to be able to upgrade the SPP code in the environment in a controlled/phased manner. This means that they need to upgrade the SPP server and vSnap servers at different times an...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Fastback-TSM integration wizard. Multiple TSM nodename definition required to achieve different data retentions

    It is essentially not a problem with the operation of Fastback. The problem is in the integration between Fastback and TSM. We have the TSM admin centre set up to access the TSM server and the fastback server. I have been using the integration wiz...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Planned for future release

    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 5 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 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    When Safeguarded Copy is out of capacity, allow for either oldest to delete or newest to not be created

    Give Safeguarded Copy customers a choice to either not create a new copy, or delete the oldest copy when SGC capacity is not sufficient to create a new copy
    over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Enhancements to TS7700 VESHSTATS statistics

    Enhancements in next VEHSTATS reports:H21ADPSU Add information about how many FICON channels are working and the nominal transfer speed (4GB, 8GB, ...) on every cluster.H33GRID Add information about how many gridlinks are working and the nominal t...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Security: Spectrum Scale read-only access on client nodes

    We would like to distribute software using a Spectrum Scale filesystem to compute nodes in an HPC environment but want to make sure malicous users cannot modify files which would enable them to spread malware. In NFS environments this can be estab...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Copy container pool to cloud pool

    Spectrum Protect (TSM) currently does not support the use of cloud pools as protection for container pools. The Copy Container functionality should be enhanced to support the used of cloud pools (in addition to tape) as a way to protect an on-prem...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Provide License Report Granularity on Users/Roles/Resource Groups

    In order to represent and determine a cost model for the usage of SPP, please enhance the licensing report (System > License) to be able to select additional options/filters. Filters should be bound to resource groups, users or roles. Target is...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Protect Plus Mongo SSl / TLS

    Spectrum Protect Plus Mongo client agent does not have support for SSL or TLS security keys. Please add SSL /TLS security function to the Mongo agent.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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