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    Add option in Spectrum Protect OC to send reports in PDF format

    One of my customers requested to have the option to send Spectrum Protect reports in PDF format via email. This is the same functionality that they have today, since they are using Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM Tivoli Common...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

    Logging of details for files deleted by dsmc delete on Spectrum Protect client

    If on a client node an administrator deletes files using the dsmc delete arch or dsmc delete back there is no detailed logging of the deleted files neither on the ISP server nor on the ISP client. You only have the number of deleted files in the a...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

    Operation Center option to only send report if there is output

    Operation Center "Configure Report" should have a checkbox to prevent sending a report if there is no output.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

    Method for monitoring/alerting on performance of cache to S3 data movement

    There is currently no method to monitor the migration of local cache storage to S3 object storage. There is therefore no easy way to know if data are being moved and if they are moving sufficiently quickly to be completed before the next backup. I...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

    Allow migration of Local Page DS volumes

    Active Local Page DS volumes are the only volumes that cannot be migrated by TDMF. However, when all active local pages on a volume are set into Drain mode (read only), there should no longer be I/O to the volume that TDMF cannot handle. TDMF coul...
    about 3 years ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Externalize Netview/GDPS Response Messages

    In the current design the only facility to diagnose problems encountered in the Netview and GDPS Command/Response sequences is to repeat the migration with the SNAP option specified. This would be unnecessary if the messages were written to the JO...
    about 5 years ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Operations Center: Select multiple (but not all) servers for a report

    Currently, you can select either one or all servers for a report. It would be very helpfull if you would be able to select a subset of servers.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

    TCP/IP Transmission Statistics

    I received a request that TDMF show in performance reporting at a Session, and optionally at a Volume level, the gross amount of data bytes to send to remote sites over TCP/IP and the accumulated number of bytes processed. Including Percent Comple...
    about 5 years ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Future consideration

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