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Spectrum Protect Snapshot should recognize AIX LVM mirror setup after restore

The customer operates multiple IBM Db2 databases on the AIX platform using LVM mirrored volumes.For performance reasons, specific LV to hdisk mappings are configured inside of the volume groups.Snapshot backups are created by IBM Spectrum Protect ...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Control - Alerts - Ability to Schedule Non-triggering Time Windows

Customers have backup windows during which a lot of alerts are triggered. Too many alerts causes customers to ignore all the alerts altogether even those that are triggerred during normal business hours. It would be great if we had the capability ...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus ability to offload historical Data

We need the ability to offload historical data to ICOS.The customer had an environment backing up for approximately 12 months before ICOS was implemented and we started offloading.The customer wanted all its historical data offloaded to ICOS howev...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Change the number of invalid logon attempts from lock the account or the node to a ban/black list of ip address

Starting with IBM Spectrum® Protect 8.1.15, the minimum number of invalid logon attempts that are allowed before a node or administrator account is locked is changed from 0 to 1. The maximum number of invalid logon attempts that are allowed is 10....
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Change the status of this type of error , so no PARTIAL status is returned. Only some warnings in job log.

Error Message in the Application Inventory Job, which ends the Job partially (This trigger always a Ticket): [example.server.ch] A running instance was not found for database EXAMPLE. This error is raised because autostart is enabled in oratab. A ...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

non-destructive later-on encryption activation

When customers decide not to buy encryption enablement right away with a new FlashSystem but later on because eg they get this as a new requirement or change in corporate policy, they need to destroy all data on the system and re-create arrays to ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Implement the possibility to balance host I/O throttling on cache partition level

When TS7700 runs into host I/O throttling, this throttling is equal across all CPx partitions today. Since work load on different CPx may have higher or lower priority in the business/application context, it is required to have the possibility to ...
8 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Client would like to see value similar to what is posted on Storage Insights (SI) and Spectrum Control (SC) in the GUI

Client would like to see value similar to what is posted on Storage Insights (SI) and Spectrum Control (SC) in the GUI - This is creating lots of confusion when they ask why values are not showing similarity and why there is big differences in val...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Planned for future release

SCDM needs to support DASD devices on LinuxONE

LinuxONE applications like Oracle desire application consistent snapshots. The benefit would be a tables-stakes function of a storage solution to provide data integrity.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Add a Utility node with FC cards

Add a Utility node with fc cards, so we can deliver a full IBM Storage solution with IBM Storage Archive, without having to involve Power brand.A utility node with enogh memory and fc card would fulfil this gap in our options when building a Scale...
3 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Submitted

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