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SPP File restore selection and Progress

SPP File restore has good feature but selecting restore files is really not easy.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Allow multiple or all SQL DBs selection in adhoc backup

Customer is requesting the ability to choose multiple DBs or all DBs for SQL Protection when running an adhoc backup via the SPP UI.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

select more than 20 nodes (VM's) per vCenter for Backup

In the vCenter plugin extension we can select only 20 VM's. If we select more, we will get an error, that only 20 are possible in one backup. In some cases (failed backups) we need to restart more than 20 VMs from the vCenter GUI.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Site locations to inherit the location of the devices

Have sessions inherit the site locations that are configured for the devices that are involved in the session. Currently the site locations are custom fields that could be set to any text. You can select any location even ones that don't match the...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Units of Measurements in Storage Data to be displayed in Base 10

It would be greatly helpful for the Resource Unit Billing teams and IBM user group to see the option of selecting the Storage Metrics display using Base 10, in addition to Base 2 that currently exist.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Future consideration

1500 character limit for SQL statements in dsmadmc

Currently there is a limit that commands im dsmadmc can't be longer than 1500 characters else error ANS8028E will be raised.For most commands this limit is fine but for Spectrum Protect server scripts with complex SQL statements this is a real str...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 50 Future consideration

Need better support to use specific CSM server IP address/hostname

Currently CSM does not have a documented way to define a specific IP address or hostname to be used for the CSM service. I found following potential places where this can be configured, but there could be other places as well: - ../wlp/usr/servers...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Ransomware Information

Information about Client anomaly is reported into the table ACTLOG in Column "MESSAGE" with VARCHAR (3001) - ANR3692W A client backup anomaly... This information is nice but not practical to get selected/grouped information from it. I think all ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Selectable location for Cloud instance (compliancy with regulations - showstopper to use SI)

Banking customer requires their Storage Insights instance to be hosted in Europe. If not, they are not allowed to use Storage Insights. Customer would therefore also have to be able to select the location for their instance.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Show the sum of used capacity when selecting multiple volumes via GUI

When selecting multiple volumes via GUI, show the sum of Used Capacity for the selected volumes, along with the Capacity that is already displayed today.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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