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Provide ISP Client Management Services also for Linux on Power LE

We use ISP CMS to rollout ISP Client configuration on our ISS Cluster systems. Now, besides x86 based ISS Clusters, we got our first IBM POWER LE based cluster and recognised that IBM does not ship ISP CMS for POWER LE. But we need CMS also on the...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Customers running SI ( free ) should be notified when probe or performance collections fail

When a probe or performance collection fails for a customer running SI free we should send an email or some alert notification to the user. Today they only alerting is in SI Pro and if the customer is running SI free it's not an option.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Support Spectrum Virtualize Recovery host mappings via CLI/API

CSM supports host mapping management for SGC backup recovery via the GUI to simplify actions necessary to validate an SGC backup, for example as part of a Cyber Vault solution. A general recommendation for Cyber Vault solutions is to automate as m...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Switch management

When we deliver switches with the ESS, it's a pain that these don't come with management configured. Getting the hw technician to connect to a serial port to do initial configuration, and then connect it to a network is very cumbersome.. especiall...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

SPP File Restore GUI/Wizard

The steps for the VM FileRestore are not clear and simple enough according to the client.In a restore situation (always associated with stress), the customer has to know or consider too many things in order to perform the file restore. For example...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP Server: view / check / download certificates

Hallo all As you know, there is no option to check / view certificate, e.g., for vSnap directly from SPP server. Check certificate might be required when non-default certs are in place. Under system configuration -> keys and certificates, there...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Move backups between nodes (datamovers)

Moving data from a datamover node to a datacenter node is not possible when it is mis-stored. Currently, with container pools, the only option is to delete those backups, or manually track them separately.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

REPLTCPSERVERADDRESS override

baclient and API need to allow persistent override of REPLTCPSERVERADDRESS or similar functionality.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Future consideration

Backup history for specified date frame

Hallo all To get information about VM or application backup history, you should use /ngp/analytics/vmbackuphistory or /ngp/analytics/dbbackuphistory rest-api endpoints. It generally works... if you have small amount of VM's and your environment is...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Inclusion of a REST API to interface with the TS7700 MI

Add a REST API to the TS7700 MI to gather operational and performance statistics.
about 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

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