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Add multiple recipients to receive mail from SPP

When adding SMTP information to SPP can we add multiple recipients to receive emails?
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

REST api provides OOS track counts for remote copy and flashcopy pairs

The REST api provides Remote Copy and FlashCopy query capability. It does not provide the out-of-sync track counts for the relationships. We use automation that relies on queries of remote copy relationships and requires the current OOS track coun...
almost 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

TSM Admin Center(tip) needs support for Internet Explorer 8 and beyond.

TSM Admin Center - tip(tivoli integrated portal) does not support IE8 and beyond. It needs to support IE8 and beyond for currency in our environment.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 4 Delivered

Rename kafka and zookeeper resources for LWE to avoid conflicts with existing distro/user packages

GPFS provides installations for apache kafka and zookeeper software are part of mmmsgqueue/LWE/filesystem audit functionality. Existing user environments which employ tools which rely on access to zookeeper, using standard provided library interfa...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Support overlapping idmap ranges

mmuserauth --ldapmap-domains refuses to create a configuration where the (uid) range values of multiple domains overlap - for understandable reasons. However, in complex and historically grown environments, modifying existing accounts to accommoda...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Storwize / SVC - Increase of two relationships per vdisk

The current limit of one relationship allowed per vdisk limits the capability of the system to allow 3 or 4 site topology requirements without the use of flashcopies and essentially scripts / external tools to facilitate this.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

TSM OC should have a job control.

TSM Operation Center needs a panel to control the backup-restores. I am going to put some examples. If a customer is using Control-M or TWS, TSM doesn't know if the backup is good or fail. Like TSM is a Backup/Restore tool. It is also necesary thi...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

REST API for TS4500

We would like to have an option to check the configuration of a TS4500 with an automated script. How many cleaning vols are in, volumes in I/O station, component status (accessor, gripper, etc.)I know some things are already available with SNMP bu...
about 5 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

Spectrum Protect server v8.1.x with SLES v12 on Power LE

Spectrum Protect v8.1.x server:Customer is building a complete SAP HANA on SLES v12 running on POWER LE. Spectrum Protect for HANA is supported on SLES v12 on POWER LE.In order to be consistent and ease of use, customer would like to run Spectrum ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

FCM for VMWare lacks support for parallel offload backups to TSM

Parallel backups in a very large environment are mandatory and flashcopy manager in a small vmware environment is really not needed.So in an large environment with one vmware datacenter and more than 2000 vms not being able to run parallel backup ...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Delivered

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