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IT Infrastruct Analyst

Based on the case TS003038751, we would like to suggest the improvement in the product IBM Spectrum Protect Plus hypervisor inventory. When I have some host in "maintainance mode" in Vsphere environment the jobs show a lot warmings logs because o ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to OC when removing monitored server

Removing a spoke from hub causes error when custom report is defined for removed server. It would be useful to inform user about this or disable the report automatically. It would also be useful to be able to remove spoke from hub via OC.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM q proc command should show the node name or volume name which is processing

Whe the copy process for storagepool is running, i have no information which node is processing. I can happen, that 1 of x copy process is running much longer then other. The reason is, that on disk pool the copy process is working on node. It can...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

FCM VMware: Provide ability to specify multiple values of MAX_VERSIONS for a group of datastores for XIV

We need to ability to customize MAX_VERSIONS for a group of datastores for XIV. We are limited to only one MAX_VERSIONS parm with XIV.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

FlashCopy DUMPCONDITIONING

CSM does not support a FlashCopy DUMPCONDITIONING session.
over 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

NDMP Support for Dell FluidFS with Spectrum Protect

The Dell FluidFS 8600 supports NDMP 2/3/4 and appears to work with Spectrum Protect backup/restore node. Please add this as a formally supported NDMP enabled device family.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Increase available information on Audit log screen and reinstate scroll bars

In Spectrum Virtualize 8.5.0.2 (SVC) the Audit log screen layout and functionality has changed compared to 8.4.0.6. Up until 8.4 there are 21 entries visible, on 8.5 this is reducted to only 10. Changing the row height (smaller) only adds addition...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Supporting more than 512 characters in the GUI of TDP4VE

You cannot use in the GUI scheduler of TDP4VE more than 512 characters to put VMClient in the backup
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

request client management service for AIX

client management service for AIX to use Operation Center functionality
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale (ESS) request for VMware SRA (Storage Replication Adapter)

Require a VMware SRA (Storage Replication Adapter) to be developed for SCALE / ESS. Have an urgent requirements for a SAS Grid implementation that will be deployed across two locations. Scale AFM Async D/R replication will be used replicate data b...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration