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Spectrum Protect Plus: Improvement suggestion for the Restore-OpenShift function "Restore to alternate cluster"

System: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Server Spectrum Protect Plus is used to secure the various OpenShift clusters. In the event of a disaster recovery, it is a common scenario that the saved status of the defective cluster has to be transferred to a...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP M365 Backup via Proxy

Several clients are enforcing the usage of a client provided HTTP/HTTPS proxy server to grant systems access to the Internet. In such case the IP network traffic is not routed through the default gateway. That is the reason why a client proxy need...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Remove null node name used for directory container storage pools from occupancy table

For directory container stgpools the Occupancy table contains an entry with a null nodename. This entry holds about half of the total files and reporting MB of that stgpool. Actually the real size of the stgpool is the total reporting MB minus the...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Moving the TSM Server parameter DIRECTIO NO from a server-wide option into a device class specific parameter

The Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server will, by default, use non-buffered I/O bypassing the file system cache. By specifying the server option DIRECTIO NO within the dsmserv.opt, this behavior can be changed – means TSM is using the file system c...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus User Experience Enhancements

User enhancement requests for Spectrum Protect Plus Make the dashboard interactive i.e. ability to drill down into the protection summary, the unprotected summary, failed jobs and running jobs. Make the dashboard customisable. All data accessible ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Migration of Data/Backups between VSnaps

In backup operations, it is becoming increasingly apparent that existing backup jobs are growing larger and larger, reaching the limits of a VSNAP. Adding new VSNAPs only helps new backup jobs or distributes existing backups to different VSNAPs. A...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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

Provide More Granular DS8 Capacity Reporting for Storage Insights Hosts and Volumes

Please provide the ability to capture capacity information for hosts and volumes at a more granular level, eg hourly/sample vs just a single daily entry. The array overall we can see capacity data at least to an hourly level, so this would allow u...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Add product_id to display on gui Pools, Internal storage

I am looking at this site: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/873170 There is nothing there to tie my drives on my FS7300 running 8.5.0.10 to anything on that site. I am trying to use the GUI. I go into Pools, Internal Storage. I even tried to...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Spectrum Control Storage Insights to have multiple data collection targets for a single Spectrum Scale Environment

Currently Spectrum Control Storage Insights, can only target one Spectrum Scale node for data collection.
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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