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modify hostname for SYSLOG

Our syslog management have to get logs with a specific source name. We want to pu a personalized source name instead of the default of LinuxServer @ Adresse_SerialNumber_
about 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 6 Future consideration

Allow migration of Local Page DS volumes

Active Local Page DS volumes are the only volumes that cannot be migrated by TDMF. However, when all active local pages on a volume are set into Drain mode (read only), there should no longer be I/O to the volume that TDMF cannot handle. TDMF coul...
about 2 years ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Future consideration

Consider SFP specification (LW, ELW, SW) port speed as attribute for alerting creation

SI allow to create alerting related to SFP spec like power or DB, these spec my differ depending of the type of SPF in use Alerting creation should allow to to specify the type of SFP when creating an alerting some spec are as well related to the ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add query volume for NDMP snapmirror backup

Add a query volume option for BACKUP NODE TYPE=SNAPMirror Sample: QUERY BACKUP NODE [node] TYPE=SNAPMirror This would simply the backup for backup operators without access to the NetApp filer. The workaround "BACKUP NODE cluster1node1 TOC=No TYPE=...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Chaining Opscenters for REST API via one central Opscenter

Having several Opscenters managing several Spectrum Protect Instances, and having currently the restriction only to have 1 Hub server, this makes Management by branches and departments complicated. Therefore we appreciate to group Servers of speci...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 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.
about 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...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Collect Spectrum Virtualize raw stats

There are times where the storage insights performance data is not detailed enough or is not collecting some metrics that we need to understand performance issues.We would like to be able to enable raw stats collection where the SI data collector ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 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...
about 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.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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