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Include SNMP agent's IP address ( Strowize cluster IP) into SNMP trap

Our client use the SNMP agent IP address to filter the SNMP trap. But our Storwize systems are not send the IP-address with the SNMP trap. All other systems from IBM and other vendors send the IP- address within the trap. We know that the SNMP V2 ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Need to add retention period for event FILETEXTEXIT

Please provide options for managing the size or age of the text file written by the FILETEXT exit. Currently we are using this option to collect the events and would be good if there is an option to manage the size of the file.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Oracle settings after a restore

When running a Spectrum CDM restore job that will mount an Oracle instance from a snapshot on a host, automatic Oracle setting coming from Spectrum CDM does not enable to restart automatically Oracle instance if the host is rebooted after the rest...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Backing-Out CSM upgrade on DS8K Box.

1. The ability to revert/back-out/uninstall a CSM upgrade on a DS8K machine and reinstate the CSM server software that was just overlaid with the new code.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Enhanced SVC GUI Performance Monitoring

From customer :CPU It would be nice to see breakdown across iogroups and nodes to show any imbalances Vdisk metricsHere it would be nice to be able to drill down to a vdisk levelThe ability to break down vdisk metrics to host level. Mdisk metricsT...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE backups reporting completed when VM's have failed

As we can see below from the summary report 21 VM's were processed, 20 completed successfully, 1 failed but the scheduled event completed successfully: 04/27/2016 22:07:46 Total number of virtual machines backed up successfully: 2004/27/2016 22:07...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Using VMware vSphere Tags for selection of VMs to back up

We need better tools to select which VMs to be included in or excluded from a backup. The RFE ID 62515 is another indication of this. I suggest to implement into the TSM client the ability to select VMs to include/exclude based on VMware vSphere T...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

VTS / VIRTUAL VOLUMES SEARCH / possibility to NOT save searches

In virtual Volume Search interface we want to have possibility to clic on option "save search request?" if we want to save this new request search in the "previous Searches"
almost 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Option to exclude VM folder in DOMAIN.VMFULL

DOMAIN.VMFULL all-vm;-vmfolder=DR-Machines,*TEST* -vmfolder will work in the same way as "-vm" excluding certain folders or folders containing som word
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Direct NFS access to VMWare Datastores

The need is to be able to read data to backup from NFS storage, directly from physical or logical proxy proxy when ESX storage is provided by NFS share (not SAN attached).
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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