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    vSnap Failover Functionality

    Currently, vSnap servers do not have integrated failover functionality. This means if a vSnap is not available, and a backup runs pointing to this vSnap, backup will fail. Automatic failover should happen if a vSnap is not available. Backup then s...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect - Retention Lock for retention sets

    System: Spectrum Protect Server - all platformsActor: User needing new function Description: Request to develop a new feature which can lock a retention set from being deleted prior to its set expiry day. The feature can be termed as "Retention Lo...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    File Level Restore Enhancements

    Requests from customer to improve the File Level Restore recovery capability in SPP and add the following: 1) Add an include list as well as an exclude list under VM options > select options 2) Collect data for and add a date modified field so ...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Protect Data Retention should be able to delete Copy Storage Pool Volumes

    In Spectrum Protect Data Retention it is not possible to delete any data manually, which is the key functionality of the product.In case of duplicating the data stored (i.e. on tape) we use Copy Storage Pools. To allow an exchange of the underlyin...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    Default behavior of formatting a vdisk should be selectable

    Default behavior when creating or expanding a vdisk is to format the new capacity. Please allow the customer to customize at the cluster level whether the default is to format or not format.
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Policy Based Replication Recovery Volume Names

    We appreciate the simplicity of Policy Based Replication setup; however, we are in need of these two features to be added: 1. Allow custom naming of the recovery volumes. This is needed because we do not use the same system names between each site...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Option to configure rsize parameter in Storage Copy Data Management for Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem

    Currently Storage Copy Data Management creates FlashCopy target volumes on Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem devices launching the following command: mkvdisk -mdiskgrp <pool_name> -iogrp <io_grp_name> -size <size> -rsize 0% -autoex...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

    Unable to distinguish SI Pro trial from other SI Pro entitlements

    Once the 60 day SI Pro trial is enabled, full feature SI Pro is available and there is nothing that allows you to distinguish that a trial is running and counting down. If the SI Pro license is upgraded during the trial period, there is nothing th...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    LCP : Dynamic Management (increase and decrease) of Safeguarded Capacity

    This idea would benefit all IBM z customers who are using, or who are considering implementing Logical Corruption Protection (aka z Cyber Vault) of data hosted on DS8000 storage subsystems. It would be of particular value to large installations wh...
    about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Data Protect as part of IBM Storage Defender and improvement for cluster-failover

    Assume there are two Data Protect Clusters in metro-distance (<30km). Both clusters are loosely coupled only. Just backup data itself are mirrored asynchronously, but no meta-data. What are the issues with that? As a consequence, in case of a f...
    over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

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