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Support of HyperV VM tags to select resources to backup

Ability to select the resources to backup based on VM tags in a HyperV environment (same functionality as for VMware)
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM CSM API Should Show all DS8 Session/LSS/SSID In Hexadecimal to Correctly Reflect The Values on the Hardware

We recently encountered a discrepancy in our API reporting from CSM where the Session ID was not matching what is in the GUI (and on the actual DS8 hardware), and it turned out that from the CSM/web/sessions URI, all of the session/LSS/SSID values...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Is a defect

SQL Recovery Model change is not properly handled

ISPP doesn't handle changes of the SQL recovery model from "full" to "simple" as it would be suitable for a enterprise product.When a DB with Log Backup enabled is changed to simple recovery model, there will be warnings that the log backup is fai...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

LSS Display capability in Internal Resources page per Storage Array

It would be nice to have the ability to report on LSS on a DS8K. It would be nice if we could report on LSS and the Device Type, getting the counts per model type with an LSS device quantity Total - perhaps with a Capacity Total by model and summary.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale - automatic audit log files rotation

The File Audit Logging functionality from Spectrum Scale captures file operations on a file system and logs them to a retention enabled fileset.Depending on the number of operations at the Spectrum Scale file system, it can generate lots of audit ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Windows server as virtual machine on KVM based hypervisor.

In order to be compliant with IBM to get support and to have more flexibility around Spectrum Protect, we need to be able to run Spectrum Protect server as a virtual machine on a KVM based hypervisor (RHEV/Proxmox VE/Native KVM etc...) with Window...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 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...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Allow group owners to also query filesets

We have user filesets (independent) that are owned by root but the group is actually the user. Unfortunately Spectrum Scale seems not to take group ownership into account and only the owner can query the fileset (mmlsfileset) which seems overly re...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Disable selected Alerts and prevent daily messages.

We want the ability to disable 'recommended' Warning / Alerts from sending daily emails from selected events.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

See current system time in Gui when NTP is set.

Would like to be able to see the current system time in Gui on the NTP Tab, even if we have the possibility to use svqueryclock in Cli. Will make PD easier when comparing the time in tasks and events.
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

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