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To enable option within SPP for setting multipe bandwidth throttle limits

At the moment, SPP has the option only to set single throttle limit for replication & copy operations, but will it be better to allow the option to have multiple bandwidths throttling limits, during varied time schedules. Example as below: Bus...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Support for Active Directory Item restore

Today does IBM Storage Protect Backup-Archive Client only support to protect Microsoft Active Directory and do a total Disaster Recovery of Microsoft Active Directory. If we want to restore only one item in the Active Directory to get back from a ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Object Lock / Immutability with SP/P with Hitachi Cloud Scale

In alignment with our Cyber Resiliency sales play many of our clients are looking at ways to utilise the assets they already have purchased to "sure up" their infrastructure. We know data management solutions are a target of internal and external ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Fusion restore target can use GIU/UID difference than source

Fusion restore service will be able to restore a project namespace using a new set of GID/UID that may be different than the GID/UID used in the source. This can be useful in the event that the original GID/UID are already in use in the target clu...
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Disallow to run a SGC recover when R1 devices are already in use (by another recover or by a practise H3)

In our configuration R1 devices for SafeGuardedCopy are the same as H3 devices for practice. When we flash I3 devices on H3 devices for practise and then we run a recover backup for SGC the task failed with a x0FAE error code.But one time the H3 d...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Needs more information

Powershell interface to dsmc and dsmadmc

Powershell is becoming the scripting language of choice for windows. It is difficult to call existing dsmc and dsmadmc command line tools from powershell and reasonably process the output. Powershell has an object pipeline model and file output do...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Prioritise selection of zOS Host Connections in Copy Services Manager

Have the ability to be able to prioritise/order which zOS system(s) in the zOS Host Connection panel in Copy Services Manager (CSM) is selected. There is the possibility that some zOS systems added as zOS Host Connections may not have equal CPU ca...
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

Respect the TIER of the source volume when adding a volume copy to avoid performance impact

When a client adds a volume copy to a vdisk, for example when converting a volume from Basic to HyperSwap (but other situations would also apply), the SVC SW does not respect the TIER of the source volume when allocating the extents of the volume ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Possibility to deploy/update Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center

Update of Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center is not possible.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

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