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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 ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Request for DS8K GUI to show logically occupied in comparison to physical occupied capacity in dashboard

Enhancement request for DS8K GUI to especially show in particular the logically occupied capacity also at first glance, and in comparison to the physically used. The Dashboard should already outline whether and how much is overprovisioned.The Dash...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Fastback-TSM integration wizard. Multiple TSM nodename definition required to achieve different data retentions

It is essentially not a problem with the operation of Fastback. The problem is in the integration between Fastback and TSM. We have the TSM admin centre set up to access the TSM server and the fastback server. I have been using the integration wiz...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Planned for future release

Archive log utilization query

TSM 6.1 and up have no way to show the archive log utilization in the admin client. This seems to be an oversight. The query log command should be able to display this info. It should also be available via a select statement. The only way to get t...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Actions on multiple selected object

If we have to hold/release several jobs we have to do it on each single job. Selecting all the jobs the only available action is "Delete", which is the most dangerous option. I think it can be very helpful for the day by day activity to enable al...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Provide License Report Granularity on Users/Roles/Resource Groups

In order to represent and determine a cost model for the usage of SPP, please enhance the licensing report (System > License) to be able to select additional options/filters. Filters should be bound to resource groups, users or roles. Target is...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Add error handling to dsmc to avoid looping asking questions to non-existent terminal

dsmc does not handle End Of File (EOF) on stdin gracefully when the situation arises that it needs to prompt and ask a question. Instead of realizing that there is no terminal attached and abort gracefully it gets stuck in a loop forever saying: T...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

enhancement to the query system command

Using q sys to collect serverinfo is a good way to gather information in case a PMR is opened.There are however a few things i'm missing in this command.1) For copygroups it's not possible to see the destination stgpool, either includeq copyg * ac...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Need the ability to manually select a vSnap to be used during a backup even if that vSnap is in a site with multiple vSnaps

A customer has asked for the ability to override the automated selection process for where a VM backup is put. This would be for situations where they have multiple vSnaps assigned to a site in SPP but have a desire to make use of a vSnap that has...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Change dsmc selective to handle *, ?, doublequote, singlequote as nonmetacharacters

We want Linux GPFS mmbackup to backup all files that are legal in GPFS. Certain filenames currently cannot be backed up from mmbackup (RedHat Enterprise Linux5.6 (64bit), GPFS 3.3.0-14, TSM client 6.2.2.0, TSM server 6.1.2.1) because of the presen...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Planned for future release

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