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Provide mechanism to choose whether webhook messages events field may carry an array of events or just a single event

Spectrum Scale is capable of sending webhooks to recipients. These hooks contain information about events and such. According to Scale’s documentation, this is the json payload of such hooks: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.5?topic=...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

TSM BAClient for Solaris 11 x86

A TSM Backup Archive Client for Solaris 11 x86.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

TDMF Message for SOFT FENCE

System: TDMF for z/OS Actor: User needing change in a message. TDMF (Transparent Data Migration Facility) is a product that allows the customer to non-disruptively relocate or migrate data within the data center, in periods of full production and ...
about 9 years ago in TDMF z/OS 3 Planned for future release

SPP - Change Message "CTGGA2192" from Error to Warning

Change Message "CTGGA2192: No volumes were replicated because there were no new snapshots. Please ensure that the backup completed successfully and the frequency of the Replication is less than the backup frequency." from Error to Warning. If ther...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

tdposync with script

Since migration to version 6.3.0, we are no more able to use tdposync in script because password is request on concole or terminal. Many Oracle DB is hosted in our Data Centers and cleanup TSM with RMAN Catalog can be a heavy load if this opportin...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Planned for future release

Proactive alert on backup policy change or modify in IBM spectrum protect server for prod

To avoid data loss, IBM spectrum protect to Alert or warn proactively on the production server
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

policy admins need ability to remove replication configuration in order to remove node

We provide TSM as a service and grant policy rights to our server users who create/delete their own nodes, schedules, and the like. Previously, they would delete their own filesystems ande then remove the node. However, since implementing node rep...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

Relabel-On-Scratch option for external library manager

When TSM Server recycles (frees) a virtual tape of a VTL this is eliminated from the TSM DB, but not from the VTL. So statistics e.g. Dedup factor are distorted over time. To prevent from this the TSM Relabel-on-Scratch option was introduced. But ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Develop a conversion utility for Day 2

develop a conversion utility for Day 2 to change blksize on all static files so when ZDMF is invoked to encrypt those files, blksize gets changed at the same time (this would mean static files remain in the clear until the utility is developed, te...
over 2 years ago in zDMF 0 Planned for future release

TS7700 should allow option to overwrite search history

The TS7700 will retain up to 10 previous search results when querying logical or physical volumes. Once the customer has created 10 search results any additional search attempts will be denied until the customer deletes one or more of the previous...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

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