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Summary Report

Need a dashboard style report showing key performance figures for management. Current reports are PDFs containing long lists of information. There is no equivalent of the ‘General Operations' report that is produced by Operations Center for Spectr...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Unprotected VMs View

At present it is quite hard to answer the question ‘what am I not backing up'. SPP displays a summary of this on the home page (Source Protection) and the Policy Overview page. On neither of these can I just click on the number shown and see a lis...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP : User to do FLR limitations

The user defined to catalog file metadata has to have all sudo permissions and this can be a security problem. Our Customer wants the list of sudo commands necessaries to catalog file metadata and restore files in the servers.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CSM scheduledtask based on calendar day

We need scheduling at specific calendar day/timeSelecting single or multiple day
about 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Needs more information

TSM-VE : better handling of VM template backup

may I suggest to not report a VM template backup as failed as it is done now when the VMENABLETEMPLATEBACKUPS is specified in the datamover option file ? It dosen't make sens to raise Error when excpected behavior has occured. If I specify the opt...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

FlashSystem code and drive firmware upgrade

Join the code and firmware upgrade in one process with an option to complete the drive post of prior to the code upgrade is a good idea even where there are nothing to upgrade. Making the firmware is part of the code upgrade is something make the ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

More intelligent Caching

With the DS8000 IBM has several patents and very efficient caching algorithms. This interlectural property should be also available in the SVC
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Single VM Backup History

A common question is ‘why is my VM taking ages to backup'. A Gannt chart view is a really powerful tool for answering these questions. In the example below the VM backed up mostly between 19:00 and 23:00, except on Mondays when there was extra chu...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SOBAR like recovery for Spectrum Archive

Large Spectrum Archive installation cannot afford backing up files twice so file replication on different tapes is being used.Spectrum Scale Metadata becomes critical as any corruption due to software or harware error may produce a long outage to ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

Support for Domino Protect for Mail (TDP) for Ubuntu

Domino is supported on a range of Linux operating-systems. But this requires also backup solutions to be available for those Linux platforms. Domino on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is getting more and more attraction and should be supported b TDP.
9 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Under review

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