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SCDM notify on failure only

SCDM should have an option to send notification emails on job failures only instead of for every result. I don't really need an email for a successful job.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM should support daylight savings time

SCDM should support daylight savings time
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow Easytier to place data on any tier of storage

The customer would like to tell Easytier to place incoming data on any tier of storage, specifically in this case, tier 0. They pull in databases to their storage and want to quickly access them from Tier 0. This functionality is provided in compe...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Enable cipher encryption on Fusion when doing remote mount of scale filesystems in Global data platform

When working with banking clients, all communication must be encrypted. Scale remote mounts can be done by using CIPHER encrpyion but the default used by fusion is authonly. We need to allow cipher auth in the remote mount fusion is doing when wor...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Complete list of client instrumentation categories

According manual "IBM Spectrum Protect Version 8.1.0 / Optimizing Performance" administrators can collect and analyse data for client performance problems. The table of client instrumentation categories that are tracked/timed is not complete (e.g....
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Node Replication available for NDMP storage pools

Is it in the roadmap to include storage pools with format=NETAPPDUMP, CELERRADUMP or NDMPDUMP in Node Replication ?
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Support IBM S3 interfaces provided by IBM products on SPP+

The only supported S3 interface from IBM is "IBM CLOUD SORAGE". Technote 1087149 lists the "s3 compatible storage providers" and there is not ONE product listed there from IBM. Spectrum Protect, and Spectrum Scale come to mind, but I am SURE there...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow client migration from VSNAP to OSSM and back again

Currently to migrate a client from OSSM to Vsnap storage requires deleting ALL recovery points for that client. This is worse than migrating to a different backup vendor. I have NO backups for that client simply because I want to change my backend...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Since Repository server will not allow SPP+ Catalog backup , support "S3 Compatible on TSM server", Then backup Catalog to S3 on TSM.

I have an open PMR because I already have TSM with a tape based Disaster recovery solution because I have no networked second site to use as a DR capability. We are not Internet connected with these systems, which removes typical S3 DR solutions, ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

FS7200 Proxy UI Test Function

FS7200 Proxy UI menu shows false information
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect