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    Concurrent upgrade with Ds8k and 21st Century software VSE

    Concurrent upgrade with Ds8k as a storage for 21st Century software VSE ZOS
    3 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Needs more information

    SPP - Datastore Utilisation Check

    Please can SPP have a setting to check the utilisation % of a datastore prior to backing up to ensure that the snapshot being taken does not risk the datastore running out of space.This can then be checked by SPP prior to each VM being backed up, ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Provide a simple administrative command to show the the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours)

    While it is required to size the replication server pairs, the product does not provide a simple administrative command to show the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours). Currently, the only way to get ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    add support for Microsoft Exchange "Subscription Edition" ASAP

    Microsoft is terminating support of all other Exchange versions and forces all customers to migrate to "Exchange SE" until end of October 2025. So SP for Mail needs to add official support for this Exchange version ASAP. Should not be difficult as...
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Submitted

    REST-API request for GET a list of permissions for roles/custom roles

    Security department needs to report weekly a status of important security parameters to the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). We need REST-API to query which user/group has which role. All return formats should be in JSON and YAML fo...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Need to protect Encryption Key Servers with Dual Control

    In case a hacker can login to TS4500 web GUI via admin user. He can do several stuffs like switch on Library-managed encryption (LME)? Data is encrypted and can no longer be processed if the hacker drops the key server. Please protect the Encrypti...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Policy Based Replication - Need a way to monitor how far out of sync destination volumes are from the source volumes for different Volume Groups

    When adding IBM flashsystems to a monitoring tool (we have Zabbix), it can see the Volume Groups made on the flashsystems, but it is not able to get any information that shows how far out of sync the destination volumes are from the source volumes...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    SPP Migrate Offloaded Data between different Cloud Providers

    Spectrum Protect Plus should provide a functionality to migrate offloaded backups between cloud providers.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Network option for Ceph Ready Nodes

    Our customers have asked us to upgrade their network performance and availability for Ceph Ready Nodes. Therefore, we would like you to add networking options as well as disk drives. - Number of NIC ports. Currently, with only two ports(10GbE), cu...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Submitted

    Allow to the replace command to reclaim tapes in parallel

    Hi, From time to time we need to run the "eeadm tape replace" command to replace from the tape library, some tapes that the Storage Archive detect some read or write actions and decide that this tape is not healthy and it has to be removed and rep...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

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