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Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) needs to be installable in Azure

Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) server and vSnap needs to be installable in Azure.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Make it possible to bypass tsm admin config on TSM4VE Web Interface

It should be possible to "bypass" the TSM Server credentials configuation in the TSM4VE Web interface.Once the configuration has been "bypassed", TSM4VE should never ask for it again.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - bring greater visibility on data and metadata if both do not match

TS003754429It was recommended for a RFE to be opened to give greater visibility into what is on the vSNAPs matches what is in the SPP database/catalog.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Need the ability to seed initial data from source vSnap to target replication vSnap

A customer has requested the ability to physically send a copy of data on external media from the source vSnap to the site that has the target replication vSnap for ingest rather than send the data over their network. They would like to do this to...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow for the update of CSM versions without using DSCLI interface.

Many clients use the DSCLI version built into the HMC GUI. Currently if you would like to upgrade the version of CSM you are required to install the DS8KDSCLI on a third server to facilitate the upgrade. This defeats part of the reason of using th...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

fix column widths in dsmadmc interactive screen output

When using dsmadmc for SP management, the screen output quality looks often still like from previous century. Especcially number columns are often too narrow even when there is plenty of console width still available. This leads to wrapped numbers...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

How to calculate backed data volume on Replication / SPPArchive / Cloud storage?

HalloBacked up date is storing on BACKUP vsnap and then are copied to REPLCATION VSNAP (and maybe Cloud, SPPArchive/tape) We can easily calculate size of backed up date on BACKUP vsnap based on output from this endpoint: "/api/endeavour/catalog/re...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

Add REstApi to query all volumes on a DS8K

You can only have a list of volumes if you gives the pool_id or LSS_id. Is-it possible to have a Rest Api to have a list of all volumes on a DS8K without to do looping query on LSS or pool_id ?
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

SPP SSL Certificate upload needs significant improvement

The process to upload an SSL certificate for Spectrum Protect Plus is unclear and misleading. The "manage your certificates" upload screen in the admin console states that the supported certificate format are cer and crt. These are also listed as ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Node Replication Status

When a node fails to replicate, it is nearly impossible to determine why it failed. You have to open a PMR and gather logs and usually have to bring in level II support. This is a big waste of both my and IBM supports' time.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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