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dsmc query backup -detail show all volume IDs

dsmc query backup xxx -detail only display one volume id, please display all volumes IDs or volume_names used by xxx objects.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

CLI command to show email notification status (Started or Stopped)

On occasion we have disabled notifications to suppress alerting during changes but have forgotten to turn it back on again. we know in the CLI we can "startemail" and "stopemail" to control the notifications but we cannot find a way to show whethe...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Enable Case Sensitivity in SMB Protocol

Externalize Samba Option on mmsmb to enable Case sensitivity for customer.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

resync backup after loss of the cbt

The vmware backup mechanism is based on the vmware CBT to make incremental backups. After an esx crash, the cbt is reset and a FULL backup is made (new base backup). a resync backup feature will be helpful this would take a lot of time to resync b...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Contol and Dell/EMC VPLEX

We would like to Spectrum Control to monitor Dell/EMC VPLEX. We use SC to monitor most of our IBM Storwize/SVC installations. We use performance monitor to look at performance statistics and array monitoring for alerting, reporting and billing. We...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

CSM to include text of event in email subject for email notifications

It would be very helpful if the email notifications from CSM could include not just the event code, but the text of the event in the email subject.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Remote Console - SVC

It is possible to have remote console access to the SVC engine - where there are remote sites, to be able to review if there is an issue during upgrade, or view boot process.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Support for Spectrum Protect Container Storage Pools Greater Than 1PiB

Currently, container storage pools have a limit of 1PiB per Protect server. For backing up very large environments (such as Spectrum Scale), this can lead to a proliferation of Protect servers, increasing the complexity of the solution.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

allow group pools to be used as the DEFAULT placement policy

If the default placement policy. If a disk pool is allowed as the default rule there should never be a "no free space error" when attempting to write a new file.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Central Storage Managment console for SVC / Vxxxx Storage

Provide a Central Management Console, like XIV GUI, for SVC and Vxxxx Storage
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration