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IBM V3700 Storewize Email functionality

Hello Team, Currently, our storewize has been configured with email feature under the path (Notifications --> Email configured) and we do receive "Alert Event Notifications" whenever there is an issue/event generated within Storewize like Drive...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

debug capability for Cloud Object Storage from Spectrum Products

Our team configures Transparent Cloud Tiering - Cloud Object Storage Connection from Spectrum Storage Products (SVC, Virtualize, FS9100, A9000, V7000, V5000).
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Add Timezone Attribute to Node for calculating Scheduled Client Events

Client schedules are currently run based on the current time on the Spectrum Protect server. For cases where the clients are not in the same timezone as the server, this can lead to client schedules running at unexpected times. While adjustments c...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Improve documentation

The new IBM Product IBM Spectrum Protect Online Services (SPPOS) have support to backup M365 to a IBM Spectrum Protect S3 Objcet Agent Server. But the problem is that since a few weeks back SPPOS doesn't support self-signed certificate. By defaul...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Future consideration

TSM for Virtual Environments VBS (Proxy/Datamover) Virtual Appliance

Deliver TSM for Virtual Environments VBS as a virtual appliance (VBS = Vstorage Backup Server, also known as "proxy" or "datamover").
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM BAClient for Solaris 11 x86

A TSM Backup Archive Client for Solaris 11 x86.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

Operation Center Reports - Server Groups and comma separated list of servers

Operation Center custom reports should allow selecting more than one server in "Configure Report", either by comma-separated list, or by server groups.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

Canceling sessions by name

Running sessions can be cancelled only by session id. .Please add a funcionality to cancel all sessions from one node with a single command. Further: Please add a option to cancel all sessions and prevent reopening of sessions by a node. Thank you...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Fs Permission denined still Backup reporting as completed with this error TS004208374

we are facing backup issue, we have NFS volumes backups. one of the volume backup not happening, and schedules showing backup got completed. Please find the below error. 08/20/2020 03:30:10 ANS4007E Error processing '/netapp/bocfshanamc36-sapds-sv...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

De-couple CES NFS and SMB services

From support: You can stop NFS service without stop SMB. But if you want stop SMB service, you need stop NFS first. We need to stop all access to AFM collections but still need to serve non-AFM NFS to our cluster. Easiest would be to only shutdown...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration