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    Add system node name to the description/title of any CSP ticket generated from a call home.

    The overall request is to add the system node name of the originating device into the case description whenever a call home occurs that results in a case being opened. From the sample case the customer provided, the case description is “9100 DSK00...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

    Filter for Backup, Replication and Copy in GUI

    Under Job History in the SPP GUI it would be helpful to be able to filter by job job type. Example: Backup, Replication or Copy. This would make it much easier to search for specific jobs.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Update Cloudstoragepool to make it immutable.

    Hello Currently S3 immutable and immutable COS is supported but its only with define stgpool but its not supported do update current stgpool to make it immutable. Since S3 allow changes now, can we please have an update stgpool with enabledatalock?
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Change the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server autoselect to select backups prior to the backup endtime, instead of the backups prior to the backup starttime

    The LSN (Log Sequence Number) checkpoint is created when an SQL backup concludes. This can lead to the autoselect function in IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server, selecting a log backup between the Difffuls or Full backups start...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

    For case TS002612329, we need to increase the character limit of future versions of the TSM/TDPSQL from 1790 to 4000.

    491/5000We have a problem with a restore of BD in PMR TS002612329 and we need to increase the character limit of future versions of the "IBM Spectrum Protect for Databases: Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server" product from 1790 to 4000. The a...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

    Support for CSM assimilating correctly a Safeguarded Copy session that has a recovery relationship onto an new CSM server

    CSM should be able to assimilate correctly a complete Safeguarded Copy session that has a recovery relationship established and is in "Target Available state onto a new from scratch installed CSM server. Currently CSM is only able to assimilate th...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Global Preferences Option to ignore alerts for skipped RDM and independent disks

    Currently if a backup job runs and a VM has RDMs or independent disks these flag an error and are skipped and the job is marked as partial rather than completed so flags alerts in the dashboard. A customer has asked for this to be an option in glo...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Temporary AWS security credentials for S3 access

    Spectrum Protect Plus currently only supports the use of permanent AWS access keys to access S3. This request is for support for access to S3 buckets with temporary AWS credentials. Spectrum Protect Plus should be able to support the rotation of a...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Restore VM with excluded hard disks requires to much space on datastore

    I want to restore a VM under a new name and exclude all data disks from that vm for the restore. Only the disk containing the operating system should be restored. When I invoke that restore with the option "vmdk=Hard Disk 1", only the VM and the d...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Support for additional third-party filers

    SI has fairly limited support for third-party filers.
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Not under consideration

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