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Storage Insights needs end-to-end topology view

To investigate issues with performance or connectivity, end-to-end views are needed. These would show the server/host fibre connections to the SAN and to the SVC, likewise from SVC to the SAN to the backend storage. Possibly also show SVC host clu...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Provide a replication status in the dashboard to verify vSnap replication is in sync/running etc.

A status view is required to identify if vSnap replication is in sync / running / out-of-sync similar to the replication status view in the Operation Center for Spectrum Protect replication.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

"Cancel Process all" command in Spectrum protect

Would be great if "cancel process all" command in TSM/Spectrum Protect is introduced.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Abort of STGRule ActionType=Copy if no MountPoint is available

Starting a Storage Rule with ActionType COPY and no Tape MountPoints are available the transaction is aborted by the server.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

New Client Option to force backup by file attribute change

Configuration: Linux/UNIX Filesystem B/A Client Problem: After a chmod or chown command on a file, it is not possible to go back to the state before customers change when a new file backup was made. Because only the attribute in the DB was...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

It would be good to have an automated way for taking care of acfs file system backups

TSM does not currently support acfs file systems (even though they can be backed up as "regular" file systems and as long as they are specifically declared as domains in the dsm.sys file (or elsewhere). We are currently facing a scenario where our...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Waiting for Winodws 2019 Server support for Spectrum protect server and BA client

We need Windows server 2019 server support for the Spectrum protect for the TSM server installation and BA client as well
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

CNSA Support for Per-PV Encryption

Add support for Scale CNSA to provide per-PV encryption allowing for each PV to use its own encryption key from GKLM or HashiCorp Vault. This would be configured as part of the encryption config CR for the PVC. Allow for each fileset associated wi...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Direct Offload to Spectrum Protect

Enable the direct offload to Spectrum Protect without the requirement to have a copy of the data offloaded in the vSnap.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

TSM4VE UI Support for mulitple Spectrum Protect server instances

the current TSM4VE Web UI or plugin does not support the distribution of VM backup data of 1 datacenter to multiple Spectrum Protect instances. Nowadays VM datacenters have reached sizes which require to have more than 1 Spectrum Protect instance ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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