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Flashcopy support in DS8K when using Metro mirror dual leg

Mirrored volumes between two DS8K support and keep the mirror intact when using Flashcopy. We have functions in example DSS like:FCNOCOPY FASTREPLICATION(REQUIRED ) FCTOPPRCPRIMARY(PRESMIRREQ ) SW functions in DB2 have made utilities that uses the...
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Planned for future release

GPFS instead of ZFS

Instead of ZFS we'd appreciate use of GPFS/Spectrum Scale with Protocols. The IBM Product has all capabilities to ensure a stable and scale-out infrastructure which is supported in all current Kernel Levels.Using GPFS will not have the impact on t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

We need this to be MSP friendly to allow multi tenanted view of our customers

We are an MSP and it would be a good way to monitor our customers environments
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Data Management Service (DMS) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support for MS SQL filestream mode

Bosch is requesting Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) support for Microsoft (MS) SQL filestream mode. SPP should support full and incremental backups and restores of MS SQL databases running in filestream mode.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Retention set enhancements for multiple copies and replication

Currently creating multiple copies of retention sets are restricted. Firstly, you cannot create multiple (tape) copies of a single retention set. Secondly, if a node is replicated between multiple SP servers, you cannot create a retention set on b...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus direct archive to on-prem COS

Archive in an SPP SLA policy is only available to cloud services (ICOS, AWS, etc). I am requesting that the archive function in SPP allow for S3 connectivity to on-prem COS. I have a similar request in ID#151074.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

add support for other KMIP server type

Today, only SKLM is supported to encrypt tapes. To simplify infrastructure, we would concentrate our KMIP requests to only one type of server. So our request is to have support for other servers.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 4 Planned for future release

Keyboard shourtcut in DSMADMC

Implementation of keyboard short-cuts for DSMADMC (SP administrative client console).
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

GNR needs to be supported outside ESS

Since Spectrum Scale is a Software Defined Storage product, we would need to support GNR outside of Elastic Storage Server.
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

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