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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

S3 to Tape

Provide a mechanism to flush out/tier older objects at bucket level from COS to tape ideally while preserving some kind of object level reference in the source bucket not having to rely on data movement at the application layer or leverage the COS...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 1 Submitted

Add GM capability between sites 1&2 and 3&4 to 4 site replication enhanced solution

Currently the 4 site replication enhanced solution allows a client to switch from MM to GC between sites 1&2 or between sites 3&4. Typically this functionality would be used if the MM replication was causing a significant temporary product...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Ability to set Custom Retention Policies for Events and/or requirement for them to be "fixed" before removing them from the Dashboard

Per design, current Fusion versions includes the following events expiration policies: Information events lasts for 3 to 4 hoursWarning events lasts for seven daysCritical events lasts for 14 days These values are fixed and do not require the admi...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

TS7700 Rsyslog add possibility to select log types that are sent using RSyslog

From the MI we can select the messages that we want to send to a Rsyslog server but not the log types. From the documentation: Items 0 through 15 are system defaults and items 16 through 18 are specific to TS7700. So we wish to be able to select o...
10 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Disable selected Alerts and prevent daily messages.

We want the ability to disable 'recommended' Warning / Alerts from sending daily emails from selected events.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 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

avoid external ssh access to spp container pods for ISP Plus kubernetes backup

In release 10.1.6 of ISP Plus ssh access to the spp agent container pods is needed from outside the k8s cluster (ISPP Server needs this access).There are security concerns at a customer site due to this requirement.SPP server to spp agent pod comm...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SPPlus : restore VM to my cloud provider

In Spectrum Protect plus , it would be interesting to have the ability to restore a VM to a cloud provider. As we can restore to alternate location today, alternate location could be then IBM Cloud or Amazon or Azure so the VM is being restored an...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP GUI Language Option

Starting from SPP Version 10.1.4 the GUI detects the browser language to automatically choose the language for the Web GUI (for example to german). We need a way to configure the language for the Web GUI for the logged in user. This is because som...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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