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Report sorting/filter options so we can view scheduled jobs or by other custom group

With the ever growing list of reports that are being created it is getting a bit of a hassle to find the report I need. I think we need to be able to filter by active/scheduled and also by a "folder" for use as a client,manager,team, etc. It could...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SP / SPP integrated with CyberArk

Many customers are using cyberark to protect the access to the systems. it is a requirement from a large couple of customers.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Show dedup and compression ratio per VM

We can see total deduplication and compression ratio from SPP UI.This information is about all the backups taken and not detailed.Also we can see backup data per VM from "VM Backup Utilization" report.We should be able to see deduplication and com...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Support openSUSE as a GPFS client

SLES is an officially supported Linux distribution for installing GPFS/Scale (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.1.9?topic=gpfs-software-requirements). openSUSE is binary compatible with SLES as of version 15.3 (see https://www.suse.com/c...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Recovery Agent for virtual environments - Save Spectrum Protect Server Connections

In recovery agent you can mount virtual machine disk based on: - spectrum protect server-- ip-- port- datamover- datacenter node The recovery agent only remember last entry. It could be very nice if it can remember different entries.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Options to disable Dual control for few sessions

We have enabled dual control for our CSM server, but there are some sessions which are managed by API or manual control. In those cases, having dual control makes it little difficult to implement since we need a 2nd ID to approve the activity. Wou...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

Allow VDI timeout to be user controlled (SP for MSSQL, legacy backups)

When using Spectrum Protect's data protection for MSSQL (legacy backups), there is a hardcoded timeout limit for the TDP to wait for the availability of the VDI. Currently this is set to 60 seconds, and can only be observed by tracing the TDP oper...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 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...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Externalize Netview/GDPS Response Messages

In the current design the only facility to diagnose problems encountered in the Netview and GDPS Command/Response sequences is to repeat the migration with the SNAP option specified. This would be unnecessary if the messages were written to the JO...
over 4 years ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Future consideration

Monthly daily SPP backup report

For a given month (or period) provide daily SPP backup status (success, failed, undone). Provides single view to compute the backup SLA commonly used in outsourcing engagement.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration