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A better way (single node cluster)

10 months ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Decomission of file system for agent base

we are able to perform the completed server using decomission command decom node nodename can we have update feature of this like decom filespace nodename fsid nametype=fsid like this.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Missing time stamp

It seems obvious to us that it would be useful to know when the scanning of a Qtree has ended. The only existing keys to date are NameStatusMessageScan_recordsIndexed_recordsPhaseTotal_phases The endpoint we are looking at is sd connmgr/v1/scan/QT...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Need ability to hold a VADP proxy idle, in reserve, to quickly run ad-hoc jobs (or expedite/prioritise job to head of queue).

We have SLAs that run snapshot backups of VMs, each night. These jobs queue hundreds of VMs to have snapshots taken, and it takes hours for these to complete. Any adhoc snapshot or restore job that we launch during this backup window has to wait h...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Integrate Departments/Applications/Groups with ServiceNow - sync server associations for reporting

Integrate ServiceNow's CMDB (or Configuration items) with the servers in Spectrum Storage Insights and retrieve Business Line and Application associations
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SPP Report section is limited and restricted by predefined shape which cant cover customer needs.

We need to have option to remove lines from report to report just relevant data for customer. For example: Predefined VM Backup History report contain : SLA Policy, Protection Time, Status Backup, Storage Backup, Size, Backup Speed,VM: HOSTNAME,Hy...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Oracle log backup status

The status of the Oracle log backup is found only in the job log. We would like the log backups to be more visible and easy to check for success or failure. If a failure of the Oracle DB is bad, we need to see a failure on the backup job on the da...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow JBB daemon to process files without a full backup completion stamp

Allow JBB daemon to start track files immediately, and upon request from dsmc using jbb, give the file list straight away. The full backup can be run in parallel, and may take weeks to complete, but the deltas can be backed up straight away.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Add LTO lcd display to drives view

Add a column to drives view that shows the LCD status digit for LTO drives.
over 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

SP SERVER/OP CENTER: ENHANCE OPERATONS CENTER TO MANIPULATE ALL THE SCHEDULING FUNCTIONS AS IN SERVER COMMAND LINE

Enhance Operations Center with the same functions to control Client Scheduling with the same options present with Server Command Line in a WEB/GUI Interface and view.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration