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additional info collumns to job monitoring

Please add additional colums for Total transfer size and Throughput in overview of jobs. (Monitoring)
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Support of enhanced DAR for EMC and NetApp filer

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21223572Restoring file(s) on a network-attached storage (NAS) file server is much faster than restoring a directory. Enhanced DAR (Direct Access Recovery) for directories provided by NetApp or EMC f...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Make policy creation use case easier

When creating a policy there are 3 very common stumbling blocks that force them to abandon the definition and start over from step 1. These problems are, roughly in order of occurrence: ***** A. User forgot to define tag for the policy. Currently,...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

TDP for MS SQL FCM GUI multiple DB instances

The FCM GUI of newest TDP Version works only with default dsm.opt.The older GUI could be started with CLI Option: tdpsqlc /tsmoptfile="<path>\dsm.opt".This function is not available for flashcopymanager.exe!Please refer to my Supportcase 134...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Planned for future release

Allow client to choose ciphers for HMC's

The z15 allows the customer to pick the ciphers they want for https: to HMC's
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Planned for future release

Create BVIR copy queue report

We have a VTS Grid leveraged across many z/OS mainframe clients and some of those clients have an SLA on tape replication to our DR site. We need to prove to these clients that at all times their tapes are being copied to the DR site in under 2 ho...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

DS8000 API - Enhanced Event filter

The current event endpoint does not provide a way to filter out inactive errors and warnings. Neither does the response indicate whether the event is active/inactive. There is no way to poll for currently relevant issues. This filter is available ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Incompatible "username" setting between the TSSC "Call home settings" of TS7700 and the CSP tool

In the TSSC "Call home settings" of the TS7700 unit it is not possible to enter a space in the "username" setting from the panel "Location Settings" while it is required to be compatible with the waited informations in CSP.
almost 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

Ability to require dual control for destructive functions

Our auditors and risk team have identified the risk that support personnel can destroy significant portions of our business with the ability to reconfigure our storage devices. As it currently exists a single employee could perform this destructiv...
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 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...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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