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    When cases are created it would be beneficial if we could change the case owner from the default based on who is dealing with the issue .

    This would prevent unnecessary updates to the default case owner when they may not be interested . When we have a large number of cases to deal with sometime it would be better to just get updates for cases that you are interested in .
    almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

    Manage proxy node ( restore Only , backup Only ,both)

    Hello, We have production and not production environment. Some nodes needs to be restored on not production environment. But a derogation is mandatory to do it. So, we configured proxy nodes . Then we can lock and unlock the nodes to be compliance...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect FreeBSD client

    I would like to request support for Spectrum Protect Client that runs natively on FreeBSD.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Enable FCM to use thin-provisioned target volumes if source volumes are thin provisioned

    Currently it is not possible to use thin-provisioned target volumes as COPY (only with NOCOPY) with FCM even if the source volumes are thin-provisioned. This means for us to loose a lot of space for target volumes. The functionality is implemented...
    over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

    Dump of login information (auditlog) from the Spectrum Protect Plus application to monitor it in Rsyslog

    Hi, we have enabled the Rsyslog, to monitor the accesses (login) to the Spectrum protect Plus, for the Linux server we already have it working, but for the login in the application there is no option, since this information is only in the GUI, and...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Choose wich disc to restore in Data Protection for Hyper-V

    In Dataprotection for Hyper-V it would be very nice if we can choose wich disc to restore.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    REPL for log collection supported by Spectrum Control

    RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in Spectrum Control would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

    Adding Enhancment on Measurement Monitoring on level of Fileset quota

    Because in our company GPFS structure based on three or four filesystem like /production & /test and we created million of fileset based on project name but unfortunately some of these filesets reach maximum quota 100% and application down bec...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    Change (add) blocksize to 256K for backup NDMP for HNAS to Tape

    Hello,We were faced with the slow speed of data backup via NDMP protocol from Hitachi NAS device. Hitachi said that our backup speed through IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.9 will increase 3 times if you Add and make a choicethe block size during backup....
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Hadoop support by SPP

    Ability to backup and restore Hadoop data with Spectrum Protect Plus
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

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