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Ability to upgrade CSM via the DS8000 GUI or embedded CLI

Having CSM integrated onto the DS8000 HMCs has been very helpful for a number of clients. Currently, however, it is only possible for a client to upgrade CSM to a desired level via the external DSCLI. For most clients that use CSM on the HMC, this...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Enhancement for Anomaly Detection

I like the idea of Anomaly Detection in Spectrum Protect for the Server, starting in 8.1.5, to detect a possible crypto trojan. But in the our Use Cases it will become clear, that this is not much helpfull.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SP Plus interface enhancement: job monitor

In the Job monitor tab, add possiblity to filter entries to easily differentiate administrative tasks and backup tasks . Basically the Type column is already there but cannot be even used to sort the entries.Furthermore another column providing th...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

OC nodegroup handling

When dealing with node replication there is sometimes a need to group certain nodes in nodegroups i.e. for more frequent replication than for other nodes. I'd like to see a panel where one can create and display nodes grouped by nodegroup and also...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Restore "not backed up disks" as empty disks in VMWare

Following DR Scenario:VM with a database on it. We backup only the root and opt Disks using VMware backup, DB and log gets backed up using SPP DB Backup. 4 disks:Hard Disk 1 --> rootvg (SCSI0:0) backupHard Disk 2 --> dbvg (SCSI0:1) no backup...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

more granular scheduling in Spectrum Protect OC Reports

The OC accepts only scheduled reports for daily or weekly. No Day of week or month nor time could be selected separately for each configured report.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - hardware snapshot integration with Power and x86

Spectrum Protect Plus does not support storage hardware snapshot technology and the integration with Power VS and x86.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP - Have tha ability to move data off of one vsnap to another.

Customer has asked for a way to do two items: 1) Recover from the loss of a vsnap server where the storage is still viable if mounted to another vsnap server. 2) As needed move data off of one vsnap server to another vsnap server.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable object lock for internal DB backup and better retention management on Volhist

With object lock being available on backup storage pools there is a requirement to ensure the internal DB2 database can also be protected to the same level and functionality. A check of the object metadata to ensure the lock has expired/no longer ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

'failureDetectionTime' less than 10

We require to set 'failureDetectionTime' less than 10 in File System replica with DAE/DME or Erasure Coding with ECE. According to case #TS009816891, the minimum value for 'failureDetectionTime' is 10. Could you please allow us to set less than 10...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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