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    send encrypted backups through tdpve iffull/ifincr method

    send tdpve client backups with method iffull and ifincr encrypted to server as it was with methods full and incr before
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

    Support for RoW on snapshots

    Redirect on Write (RoW) is a less space consuming option for snapshots (at potential expense of more workload required for deletions).
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Events and reports from the IBM Spectrum Protect from VE to the Operation Center.

    Centralize the possibility to view from the IBM Spectrum Protect Operational Center all the events generated by the IBM Spectrum Protect for VE and also the creation, execution and visualization of the IBM Spectrum Protect VE reports from the Oper...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Adding file system management to Flashsystem

    Currently we have ceded the unified market to Pure, Netapp, and others and to help a client with file data requires a bolt on solution. We should either acquire Racktop's Brickstor and offer it as a add on for any Flashsystem as their product mesh...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Accuracy in SDP configs to allow for better list pricing

    Currently the customer facing page leave a lot to be desired and to get a better idea of pricing requires additional work and calls and can take 1 to several weeks. Improving this and giving the client an idea of what kind of discounts are availab...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Enable Aspera for Spectrum Protect on Power Linux server

    The customer has ISP on Power AIX server and want to enhance BCP between two sites with low bandwidth.I understand that Linux on IA server is supported.But this customer want to get end to end support from IBM.And we also want to exclude competito...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    SCDM should not do a df on every datafile during an Oracle Backup

    During an Oracle Backup job, the agent code does a df on every single datafile to see what filesystem it resides on to determine which luns to snapshot. On a large database with many datafiles (1000s) this takes a long time. It would be much more ...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Adjust DECOMMISION NODE command to show ALL the changes done by it

    ISP server administrators will benefit from it by spending less time on collecting action evidences for ticketing systems. Currently the command DECOMMISSION NODE with WAIT=YES doesn't show all the changes that command is doing. Check the piece of...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    The virgo log needs to be consistent with SPP server timezone.

    The virgo log is written in UTC timezone, which is hard-code. SPP time zone is set as per SPP server location. When we analyze virgo log for any problem, it is difficult to corelate with time as SPP time zone is different. So instead of hardcoding...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Capability to trigger an event when alert trigger

    Capability to trigger an event when alert trigger. Today user can define alert in SI and can get notification via e-mail Then user need to use other external tool to automatically trigger a next action to alleviate the issue. This RFE is to have t...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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