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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 ...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

TS7700 Web Management Interface for IBM BP

Supply to IBM BP a TS7700 WEB MI as a remote tool or demo
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Allow IBM Flashsystems to have a trash bin to recover deleted volumes

Create a trash bin on SpecV to allow customer to recover deleted volumes by mistake with an auto-delete parameter after X days
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Assignments panel needs to enhanced to display the ip address or WWN or switch name or at least the system UUID

We also are unable to use Assignments to spread the workload because all the switches are listed with their Chassis Name, and we have a lot of switches of the same kind so its impossible to differentiate between which device is located where. Woul...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Possibility to create a synthetic backup full in SPP with OSSM and vSnap at any time

For SLA reasons (law or company regulations) it is necessary that my BASE backup is NEVER older than 30 days!
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

temp. autologout customization in the SPP GUI

When pulling support logs in larger environments, the default autologout in the spp gui of currently 30min is exceeded. however, the time to create the log collection is much longer than 30min. this prevents the forwarding to support cases. a way ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Open Spectrum protect S3 agent for use by BRMS (iSeries)

The intent is to open up the S3 Agent for use by entities other than Spectrum Protect Plus. Target for this request is iSeries BRMS which is currently using S3 to send backup data to cloud.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Allow SP Plus backups to Spectrum Protect server w/o requiring a backup to the vSnap storage first

A backup to Spectrum Protect is not possible w/o doing first a backup to a vSnap. The dependency on vSnap should be removed to allow leveraging the Spectrum Protect server storage hierarchy.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Add GPFS Fileset quota metrics/monitoring

Product: Spectrum Scale quota monitoring (specially for filesets) We use GPFS fileset quota. These fileset quota is only monitored internally by the GPFS GUI - if the GPFS GUI is installed. If the fileset quota exceeded, the system will give you n...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

List all available recipes in UI

Customer requested to be able to list all available recipes in Fusion UI and make assignments to applications in UI instead of doing from OCP Level.
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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