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Make VSNAP Application Independent of OS Kernel

ISPP VSNAP Application on Physical Server is bound to specific Kernel Version. Upgrade of Redhat Version cause Application to fail and it doesnot come up.
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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

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

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

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

Update Cloudstoragepool to make it immutable.

Hello Currently S3 immutable and immutable COS is supported but its only with define stgpool but its not supported do update current stgpool to make it immutable. Since S3 allow changes now, can we please have an update stgpool with enabledatalock?
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Change the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server autoselect to select backups prior to the backup endtime, instead of the backups prior to the backup starttime

The LSN (Log Sequence Number) checkpoint is created when an SQL backup concludes. This can lead to the autoselect function in IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server, selecting a log backup between the Difffuls or Full backups start...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

A command is needed to manually drop the FilesToCache and StatCache of the Client node mounted with GPFS to release the tokens of the server

same as the topic
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 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

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