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Easier filters for logical and physical switches in Storage Insights

Add an easier way to filter logical and physical switches when viewing in Storage Insights. There is a column called "virtual" with a yes/no answer that can help you sort the list. That helps you separate them from each other, but they are all sti...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Option to suppress unmonitored switches in Storage Insights

Switches attached to other monitored switches are displayed in Storage Insights as not monitored unless the credentials match the switch that was added. The switch must also be a switch type that Storage Insights can monitor. Add an option to supp...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

add SVC log message when volume mirror copies run out-of-sync

Please add an informational log message to SVC when volume copies 0 and 1 get out-of-sync. Despite the two policies that can be set with the 'mirrorwritepriority' option it would be very helpful to notice problems in the back-end when volume copie...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

Add Support for OpenSource DBs like PSQL, MySQL

As an Enterprise Backup solution, Storage Protect should have the ability to integrate with very widely used DB systems such as PostgreSQL (Used in Enterprises as much as in smaller business and private environments). Storing Backups using the DB ...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

Select datastore per VMDK during restore

When performing a restore it should be possible to select destination datastore for each VMDK-file.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SP move data out of CLOUD containers

Once TSM/SP data ends up in a CLOUD pool, there is no way to every move it anywhere else. We should be able to move data out of a cloud pool. MOVE NODADATA might be relevant, but would only work if you could specify source and destination pools. T...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Currently there is no way to visualize "Virtual Backup capacity" , in Safaguarded copy in DS8950F .

As SGC is a the next evolution of secured backup, should be valuable if spectrum Control can give
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

HTTP proxy support for fusion backup to S3

When doing fusion backups to S3, most of the customers are using HTTP proxy with validation to allow access to external sources. Currently this is not supported
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

maxruntime parameter does not honor admin schedules with wait=yes

The maxruntime parameter could not be used for administrative schedules where processes with wait=yes are started. APAR IT21651 documents the behavior.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus file level restore sudo previleges

Hi IBM, We are trying to enable file level restore on SPP and we are following the below URL.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spp/10.1.8?topic=requirements-file-indexing-restore One of the pre-rquisite is to enable superuser privileges for the agent us...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration