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Backup of VMware Custom Atributes

Backup of VMware Custom Atributes and values.Service request number: 10814,999,846
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 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 encryption of database backups not only for cloud but also for tape and file

Please allow encryption of database backups not only for cloud but also for tape and file device classes. This is a requirement from security regulations in Germany.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Use Redirect-on-Write for DRP Fully Allocated volumes

For FlashCopy (FC) to use Redirect-on-Write (RoW) instead of Copy-on-Write (CoW) in a Data Reduction Pool (DRP), current implementation requires both the source and the target volumes to be compressed + deduplicated, as the dedup reference countin...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Currently there is no way to visualize "Virtual Backup capacity" , in Safaguarded copy in DS8950F .

As SGC is a the next evolution of secured backup, should be valuable if spectrum Control can give
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Recover failed Ganesha node - which mark with F flag, without reboot.

Hi We had NFS Ganesha node that failed - but we did not able to recover it , only reboot solve it. Sysmon attempted to remove the F flag three times, but all attempts to acquire the lock failed.As a result, the node remained in a failed state desp...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Directory Container Erasure Coding

I have multiple smaller customers where we only have 1 Storage Protect server and are not using any tape to be able to run protect storage pool. This is little bit of a risk and also we put all our data in to one solution and if we get bad contain...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

select to get damaged containers in OC reports

The command QUERY DAMAGED <STGPOOLNAME> type=container is nice in order to see any damaged containers, however in Operations Center Reporting it is not possible to do the same command and there is no equivalent select statement available as ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

Installation of kubernetes support componentes for ISP Plus from ISP Plus GUI

To install kubernetes backup support for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus access to Kubernetes Cluster node is required on the OS level via ssh.Several steps on the OS level are required to deploy the needed pods into the kubernetes environment.It would ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

add a button on the policys page for email testing

when you set up policys for alerts, there is no way to test to make sure it works..we use ops genie and it would be nice to confirm it is working
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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