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    Possibility to deploy/update Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center

    Update of Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center is not possible.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Open Spectrum protect S3 agent for use by BRMS (iSeries)

    The intent is to open up the S3 Agent for use by entities other than Spectrum Protect Plus. Target for this request is iSeries BRMS which is currently using S3 to send backup data to cloud.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    IBM CDM should be able to work with more than one Network Card to perform backup and restore operations

    Customer has hosts and storage subsystems placed in distinct networks. We configured a second NIC in the CDM server but once this interface comes UP, all scheduled backup fails, the reason is that they can't find the target hosts, I wonder some ro...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Treeview of copies

    Why don't you add a graphical view of the copies ? It is not easy manage the copies without having a global view of source disks and related copies. Something similar to the attached picture or by exploring a treeview
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Backup on AIX nodes managed by PowerHA

    The High Availability configuration of Power AIX systems is made up of two or more real nodes to which volumes and IP addresses are associated and then managed by PowerHA. In this configuration there are therefore at least three types of volumes:...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Full Copy

    By default backup jobs create the first copy as a full copy on thin volumes. Being a full copy, the 80% threshold set as a warning value is always exceeded, generating emails and alarm events. Is it possible to set by default the value to 0 (disab...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Massive initial load

    During the system configuration phase, it would be useful to be able to do the massive import of providers and identities (whether they are passwords or keyfiles). This would drastically reduce time spent to setup the environment.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    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...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

    Copy Data Managment - support for Oracle ASM cluster

    Informations from customer about infrastructure and use case. "Oracle ASM HA, Grid Infrastructure ver. 19.7, BS database - cluster - 2 servers, Oracle Linux 7.9, kernel 4.14.35-2047.502.4.el7uek.x86_64, - ASM disk group, 21 volumes of 2 TiB, total...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    command line for the admin console gui for IBM Storage Copy Data Management software

    We would like to automate the backup of the Catalog Manager in the Backup Catalog . Currently we need to log into the gui and click backup daily. We might miss this over weekends and would be a big issue if we restore an old catalog. We have used ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Under review

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