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Values also in "extents" in Spectrum Control capacity reports

Actually, the capacity reports provided by Spectrum Control have values only expressed in GiB. Since they are normally also available in extents (for example in the DS8000) it would be useful to have them also with this unit of measurement, adding...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Under review

backup and restore to windows cifs share without explicitly using net use

Currently in order to backup a windows cifs share, to do a snapdiff or otherwise, you need to issue a "net use" as a pre command to a scheduled backup. This is an extra step in configuration/scripting that shouldn't be necessary. This also makes i...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

No Copy option on Metro Mirror w/P session

In DS8K environments using ESE volumes we would like to have the No Copy option for Metro Mirror with practice sessions as already available on GM w/P session type.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Ability to encrypt and store dsmadmc user credentials in a local file

By default the TSM baclient encrypts node user credentials in a locally stored file. Unfortunately this functionality is not present with admin user credentials when using the Admin Client (dsmadmc). In order to automate dsmadmc commands within sc...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Need complete version information in GUI question mark info

When using the GUI the granularity of the version info only displays 2.0.4, it does not include the build version or forth element of version number (2.0.4.1). Right now only administrators can identify the full version installed via the command p...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect should have an oracle agent that replaces RMAN entirely, so proper object metadata can be handled internally, allow proper expeiration, retsets, etc.

Spectrum Protect has long been plagued by retention problems with Oracle backups. RMAN owns all of the metadata, and keeping this in sync requires sync tools, etc. In large environments, often the DBA team and the Backup team are separated. This l...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Allow replication processing of data on sequential tape media to use more than one mountpoint/session per node/filespace

Allow replication processing of data on sequential tape media to use more than one mountpoint/session per node/filespace.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

FreeBSD support for TSM Client

FreeBSD support for TSM Client
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Replication job shows as error

SPP shows a replication job as a failure, but only because there was nothing to replicate not because of an actual error. Perhaps the error message type could be changed here so the job doesn't fail.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Fusion HCI Regional DR with Scale protocol instead of NFSv3

Using NFSv3 across WAN links can be impossible when customers are using IP renaming technology (via VIP and WIPs). The hard dependency on NFSv3 for AFM-DR (regional DR) has been lifted by the Scale team as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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