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When adding SMTP information provide a Test button which will send a test email

When adding SMTP information provide a Test button which will send a test email.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Update VM success/failed summary for a job dynamically

When multiple VMs are being backed up there is no indication of how many VMs have been saved or have failed until the job is complete. The audit log for the job shows that some VMs have completed successfully and some have failed. Can the successf...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SI no longer shows data collection logs

Recent versions of SI have removed the ability to view data collection logs.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

ESS Support VDC 270 Power input

For higher energy conversion efficiency, the datacentor is constructed with dual DC power inputs. Doing so is more environmentally friendly and reduces carbon emissions. Our datacentor construction is all dual-channel high-voltage DC, and will con...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

REST style API for administrative purposes

An API towards the TSM server is desirable, in order to be able to automate functions other applications/services - instead of having to build wrappers for the administrative command-line.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Include disk topology alerts in ESS gui

We recently had a SAS cable go bad on an ESS system. While gnrhealthcheck clearly showed there was a problem, there was no indication in the gui that anything was wrong. According to IBM support, this is a known issue. It would be helpful if the g...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Add Storage Class Attribute to Data Pushed to S3

When pushing data to S3 via the Cloudgateway service it would be helpful to be able to specify the storage class. If you don't specify the storage class the data will be stored in S3 Standard. You can create a Lifecycle policy to push the data to ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Creation of the O365 account automatically from SPP

When configuring backup of O365 the account and all required permissions shall be automatically applied from SPP
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum virtulize should generate alert before rebuilding of a failed disk

One of our customer have large infrastructure of IBM Storage deployed ,where IBM FS 840 /FS 900 / SVC / IBM V7000 / IBM FS 9150 / IBM FS 9200 installed across India. Although we have call home configured and working for all devices , fault like di...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

When we increase a disk of a VMClient a Full VE backup is the result.

When we change a VMClient disk for example from 5TB to 10GB TSM is making a full VE backup.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration