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Add DB2 support for Spectrum CDM

Add support for DB2 in addition to Intercache, Oracle, SQL and HANA databases in the Spectrum CDM product please
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Automatic Performance reports of Fiber channel IO

it would be great to have a way of automating performance reports of a ds8k through storage insights. for example during an LCP Push/ pull be able to have an automated report which gets created and can be sent to an email address. we pull these ma...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

SPP CONTROL BACKUP BY DATASTORE THRESHOLD

In Spectrum Protect for VE, one can configure "VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD" in order to control if Snapshots/Backups will be processed in the Datastore level. e.g: VMDATASTORETHRESHOLD 90 means that the Hypervisor will not process any snapshot in a datas...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

Add zstd as a compression option

Although the existing compression options are okay sometimes it would be nice to be have more options where speed and decent compression ratios are achievable. Zstd has been gaining traction both in the Linux area and is already on some IBM tape d...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

SQL Recovery Model change is not properly handled

ISPP doesn't handle changes of the SQL recovery model from "full" to "simple" as it would be suitable for a enterprise product.When a DB with Log Backup enabled is changed to simple recovery model, there will be warnings that the log backup is fai...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SVC HyperSwap and FlashCopy restrictions

In theory HyperSwap seems more appealing than an SVC stretched cluster and have some advantages regarding cross-site traffic and in case of an site failure. But if you also plan to use the FlashCopy technology, there are some restrictions I have b...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Reporting using VM Tagging

Customer would like to expand the SPP reporting by using VMware Tagging.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

From the GUI of "DiamondBack", monitoring the current drive's transmission speed

Firmware : 2.9.0.4-B00.00 Hello.The customer of the equipment wants to monitor the transmission speed in real time with the GUI.I looked around the GUI to satisfy the customer, but it doesn't seem to have the functionality they want. The GUI doesn...
3 months ago in Tape - Ultra Density 0 Future consideration

Request to allow configuration commands to run during code/ifix upgrades.

During the code upgrade process of flash systems, the configuration commands are not available from the time that the update process starts to the time that the new code level is committed. These restrictions stopping us to use self-service API to...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Windows server as virtual machine on KVM based hypervisor.

In order to be compliant with IBM to get support and to have more flexibility around Spectrum Protect, we need to be able to run Spectrum Protect server as a virtual machine on a KVM based hypervisor (RHEV/Proxmox VE/Native KVM etc...) with Window...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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