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Storage Protect Family

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Supporting Cloud-Container Storage pools on zLinux

Cloud-container storage pools is a feature that that already exists on Spectrum Protect family but it is not supported neither has a roadmap for it on top of Linux on Z.Today Sicoob already uses Spectrum protect on Linux on Z and not having a prop...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Enable the use of VPC Endpoint Interface URL for S3 bucket access when defining Cloud Container Storage Pool in Operations Ce

When defining a cloud container storage pool, an option of 'Other' URL is given, and in the CLI a CLOUDUrl can be specified with a custom URL. Instructions say to use the region S3 endpoint URL. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-protect/8.1.11?...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Database Report

the SPP does not have a specific report for databases with the total consumed separately from the VMs
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IM SPectrum Protect support for expired data report

URGENT Requirement : Nedbank, in South Africa, are a large consumer of Spectrum Protect ans many other IBM products and are an ELA customer.. They urgently require assistance with an enhancement for them to be able to see when files were expired/d...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Option to modify updated weekdays and weekend in spectrum protect

We are located in UAE and here weekdays and weekend are different what is defined in the spectrum protect server . I want to update weekdays and weekend definition in the system according to this region . like mentioned below. Weekdays = Sunday, M...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Enhanced security for admin access to Protect

Administrative access to Spectrum Protect (including but not limited to the WebUI) has a weak security model.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Add Support FlashCopy Backup and Clone Presets

The FlashCopy function in Spectrum Virtualize offers backup and clone functions that SCDM currently doesnt support it would be great to have the ability to create SLAs supporting FlashCopy backup and clone in SCDM to add to FlashCopy NoCopy and Fl...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Synchronize policy information to another SP server

There is a Spectrum Protect environment with 2 Spectrum Protect servers. Server A is the primary server to which the SP clients connect to, which stores alll SP client data in first place, and on which all SP client node information, associations ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP - Interactive Donut

SPP - Interactive Donut - drill down from the Manage Protection > Protection by Policy.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

[Copy] Lack of integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

Lack of an integration between IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) using Pure Storage. Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption a supported combination of Pure, CDM and SP solution.
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

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