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Spectrum Protect Plus - Sortable & Searchable columns in running jobs progress & job logs

Requesting sort and search functions be added to the Spectrum Protect Plus UI. Specifically in the Jobs and Operations section, while viewing a job log and progress fields.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Incorporate Azure MFA

The MFA feature in the Flashsystem series requires one to setup either an IBM or a Duo Security solution which is costly and redundant as most companies today have Azure MFA at their disposal. So it would be very nice if the Flashsystem in the fut...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

target server for replicate node

Protect should allow replicating some nodes to one target server, and other nodes to a second target server.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Introduce full support for CentOS as a client

Introduce full support for CentOS clients operating with TSM server. CentOS is binary compatible with RHEL and we have few problems with the clients other than getting support for minor bug fixes. Getting support can be difficult, especially when ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Request for real capacity capacity in LSCKD command

Command showckdvol indicates the number of real extents and capacity that are used by a logical volume (thin provisionned) - fields Realextents & real capacity Customer need for monitoring and accounting purposes the same indicator for command...
almost 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

File Type retention storage pool

Only Tape class is supported as Retention Pool however many customer that has NAS appliance as secondary backup storage instead of Tape like to use retention set with a copy to secondary storage.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Online Backup/Restore capability for CP4BA(21.0.3) provided by IBM Storage Fusion

Team, We have a Canadian customer(Canada Life) who requires online backup/restore solution for their CP4BA v 21.0.3 running in ARO via IBM Storage Fusion.Below are the applications which client will be deploying via CP4BA v21.0.3.· CPE· CSS· ICN· ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Flow diagram between the pods in OpenShift

In order to better understand Spectrum Discover a flow diagram would be very useful. For example: We open the web UI and click on connections:frontend pod -> connmgr -> db2whrest 2. We start a policy via the REST endpoint:policyengine pod -&...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Fast End-User Feeling Restore

Today are we trying to get better RTO/RPO with as less money as possible. We are also looking at to backup/restore from a cloud environment. This is always a hazel when RPO vs money. And most of the time does all the end-users only want a couple o...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TS7700 should have different grid ports for Deferred work vs. sync & remote mounts

We have a multiple site TS7700 configuration with multiple grids in each location. The majority of our cross site workload is deferred. However, we have some critical workloads that we need to sync across the distance. An example of this is the HS...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

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