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Disable E-mail (and other) notifications temporarily

We are using a Notification alerting on CSM and it works well, however we would like to have a possibility of temporarily suppressing it when one does planned activity like increasing volume size (it requires breaking the mirroring, removing copy ...
10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Support for VMware vCloud Director

When does IBM expect that Spectrum Protect Plus have support for VMware vCloud Director.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

tivsm-ba deb package fails to restart service on upgrade

When working on verifying the fix for APAR IT35298 on case TS004574980 we noticed that the deb packages for the client doesn't properly restart the dsmcad service on upgrades. We were told that this wouldn't be fixed, and that the issue should be ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Add VM Backup Success Rate to GUI

The current "Success Rate" percentage shown in the GUI is misleading.It shows the success rate of jobs. Jobs include backup, restore, replication, inventory and maintenance jobs.If 1 job (with 5 VMs) fails and 1 job (with 500 VMs) succeeds, the su...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SP SERVER/OP CENTER: FUNCTION TO CONTROL/HANDLE CLIENT FILE BACKUP CONFIGURATION DIRECTLY FROM SERVER

- Develop function to integrate Operations Center with SP Server with the ability to configure and handle the client host backup remotely.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Automate Spectrum Scale AFM Role Reversal Process for Failover

Request to Automate the IBM Spectrum Scale Filesystem's AFM Role Reversal Process used during failover event.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SP PLUS support for SHAREPOINT witH SQL

Customer would like to have an application support for SHAREPOINT environemnt, backing up the VM with SP PLUS.SHAREPOINT is used with SQL 2017 database.Not yet with O365.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Dedup enabled on replication

The request is for deduplication being enabled when replicating between different vsnap repository
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Prevent Maintenance Tasks from reporting a warning when behaving as expected.

SPP can display events in the maintenance task, such as snapshots locked because of dependencies, as a warning in the summary dashboard. These however are expected behaviour with no action required. Displaying such events as a warning can be misle...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VM job reports

Spectrum Protect Plus reports don't meet our requirements.We can see if backups completed without any fails in the last 24 hour. Also VM SLA report can show us if VMs are in compliance. But it's not enough.There must be a report which shows if all...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration