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    Autoskip integrity for Exchange DAG backups

    An option like /AUTOSKIPINTEGRITYCHECK would be nice to have in Exchange DAG setups, so that the DP agent/FCM itself could check if the specified database/databases has/have 2 or more healthy copies - if it that would be the cause, it would automa...
    over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Planned for future release

    Provide encryption support to M2 internal disks to allow failed disks' removal at very large bank

    In case of a failed M2 disk in large bank or other information sensitive company, the lack of encryption support for internal disks prevents returning failed disks to IBM for repair because large banks command retaining all non encrypted disk in t...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Using DB2 JSON functionality in Spectrum Discover

    We've found a need for more complex tag values in our use cases for Spectrum Discover. An example of this is the ability to associate an entity with a document, where the entity has its own attributes. One such entity could be a "creator", with at...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

    Integrate Spectrum Archive into Spectrm Scale GUI

    Integrate IBM Spectrum Archive monitoring into IBM Spectrum Scale GUI and mmhealth.IBM Spectrum Archive provide a Grafana Dashboard but would it be good to intregrate such graphs into Spectrum Scale GUI (migrate/recall, drive performance, etc) as ...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

    RHV/oVirt support in Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

    IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments currently supports VMware and Hyper-V. This is a request for support of RHV/oVirt, as well.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    IBM SP Client/API encryption

    Allow the client and api to use external source for encryption keys storage, like SKLM.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Future consideration

    Allow for creation of canned "Data Protection Report" but limited to selected Policy Domains

    Allow for creation of canned "Data Protection Report" but limited to selected Policy Domains, across one or more TSM servers, which would include client related sections such as backup success rate, activity over 24 hours, protected clients and nu...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Support openSUSE as a GPFS client

    SLES is an officially supported Linux distribution for installing GPFS/Scale (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.1.9?topic=gpfs-software-requirements). openSUSE is binary compatible with SLES as of version 15.3 (see https://www.suse.com/c...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    CSM estimated completion time via CSMCLI.

    1. CSM estimated completion time via CSMCLI Of Flash Copy Command Hi, We would like to have a report generated with CSMCLI Command who will give the completion of the FlashCopy Ce can see dynamically the completion with GUI.But if we want to follo...
    over 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Add support for Google Cloud Storage buckets defined with Customer Managed Encryption keys

    Support for Google Cloud Storage (GCS) as a cloud container pool is currently restricted to using Google Managed Keys (GMK) for encryption on the buckets on the Google side. The use of Customer Managed Keys (CMS) is a common mandatory requirement ...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

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