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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

Server Cross-replication with Client Acceptors to both on all clients

Site fail-over/fail-back of the "restore" function (read from ISP server(s)) is already provided in the ISP server product. Site fail-over/fail-back of the "backup" function (write to ISP server) is not. If site A goes down, backups must be suspen...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Launch CLI from GUI

I have received multiple requests from my customers to add the ability to launch the FlashSystem CLI from the GUI like other IBM products. Please consider adding this simple change.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Retrules for databases and Exchange filespaces

Ability to create long term / ad-hoc achives from already backed-up data is critical to our customers. We can not afford of re-reading the same data under different nodename to store it under different retention policy. There is a need for retenti...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Delete orphaned entries in DEDUPSTATS

In Spectrum Protect there is a requirement to use the GENERATE DEDUPSTATS command to determine the deduplication performance on an individual node / filespace level. The DELETE DEDUPSTATS command is used to tidy up old entries. However, it will le...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support remote pair flashcopy on Global Mirror Primary devices.

Currently we have a GDPS Metro Mirror environment that is being expanded with LCP in a Metro Physical Airgap solution.So we have PPRC Metro Mirror between RS1 -> RS2 and Global Mirror between RS2 -> RS3. In our GDPS Metro Mirror environment ...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

SPP monitoring for Ticket

SPP failure alerts support for monitoring tools
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add support for SSH Batch Mode with MFA enabled

In current 8.6.x code, if MFA is enabled on a system, SSH Batch Mode functionality is broken (per SVAPAR-112569). SSH Batch Mode functionality is required for functionality of some external 3rd-party applications (including Galileo Performance Exp...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Check the GM subordinate even if there are no copyset in it.

Currently CSM only queries for copysets that are actively participating in a session. If we have a session with a subordinate with no more copysets on the subordinate, CSM doesn't check the state of the subordinate. Adding a check of the subordina...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus SLA removal options

When removing SLA in Spectrum Protect Plus the following options should be presented:1. Delete now2. Preserve until retention expires3. Retention hold
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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