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    Improve SPP handling of ICOS retention Vaults

    IBM SPP handling of IBM COS Retention Vaults does not guarantee protection of all objects referred in full backups. Offloading or copying to IBM COS retention vaults is done to offer "Cyber Resiliency" for a certain amount of defined time, for exa...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

    RestAPI to be able to set priority verification for a tape volume for Media Verification.

    Requestion the ability to set priority verification on a tape volume via the Rest API.
    over 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Add PowerCLI and/or PowerShell integration to VM backup

    Enable and document how a VM admin in VMware or Hyper-V can use PowerCLI og PowerShell to kick of a backup, set tags. Documentation today talks about that you can use PowerCLI to add tags for VM setting, add examples of how this is done. Look at v...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Correction of data usage on remote storage needed

    When using TSM as remote storage for FB4WKS/CDP4Files, the amount of data being used as reported by the client does not match the number from the occupancy report in TSM.This is not an optimal solution, if clients are billed based on the number of...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 2 Not under consideration

    Request the implementation of the duration/starttime/endtime parameters to the define stgrule actiontype=AUDIT

    We've configured stgrules to audit containers, but it's impacting backups as we cannot update the stgrule with a duration or stoptime. Other stgrules have the duration and stoptime options, but the 'update stgrule actiontype=audit' doesn't have an...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Improve information in ANR3605E messages

    Any ANR3605E message which appears in the server activity log does not indicate which storage agent is the subject of the communication failure. In large LAN-free environments (10s or 100s of storage agents) this can make identifying the source of...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Not under consideration

    Cloud pool with full local cache and no network connectivity should report out of storage space, or storage access error

    When the local stgpooldirs are full for a cloud pool which has an unreachable cloud provider, attempts to write into that pool should fail, rather than hang.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

    Hung Disk to Cloud transfers should time out

    When network connectivity to Azure is lost, Disk to Cloud transfer processes can hang. This is due to a limitation in Azure's OkHttp java API. SP should poll externally for hung sockets and time out, kill, or otherwise not hang pool operations. Si...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

    CSM - add 'if then' functionality to a scheduled task

    Client wants a scheduled task to be able to determine the active host and issue commands to the active host
    over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    REST API should support managing fileset access control for remote mounts

    Customer wants to change which filesets their compute cluster has access to, based on which group of users are using it. This is to protect groups of users to see each others files, even for root. They will implement filesystem encryption to prote...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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