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SP Operations Center group assign Alerts

Add a functionality to manage (assign and close) Alerts faster and in groups (bulk selections) in the Spectrum Protect Operations Center. Or make the assignment drop-down menu part of each alert so that it's easier to assign.Please design the OC i...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Server command to change/migrate node config from one TSM instance/server to another

When running a TSM environment with multiple servers and TSM instances on each server - and not always having direct access on all clients - it will be useful if a TSM administrator could issue a server command to tell a client to change its confi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

LISTING/PREVIEW of ALL tapes required for a RETRIEVE or a RESTORE

Retrieve and Restore function should have preview option to list the volumes which will be required for the Restore or Retrieve;
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

1620 callhome event

1620 mdisk group offline did not callhome due to event being and error 2 event.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Choose wich disc to restore in Data Protection for Hyper-V

In Dataprotection for Hyper-V it would be very nice if we can choose wich disc to restore.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Control - Add a capacity planning modeling function

IBM Spectrum Control uses capacity information to provide an estimated zero capacity date. I would request that this same information be utilized to allow customers to perform capacity planning modeling. Current workaround: Perform this manually u...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale integration with HyperV

I have a customer which is pure Microsoft oriented. I wanted to sell them File storage and would like to use Spectrum Scale. As whole project will quite huge I would like to use as much of their infrastructure as it is possibly. I would like to us...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

TDP for ERP - Support for Oracle 12c

TDP for ERP is not supported for Oracle 12c.Oracle 12c was certified for SAP on March 2015.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

Recommision node / reverting decommission node command

Implementing a recommission node command to stop the decommission node process without restoring database.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Snapshot (FCM) support for DB2 PureScale (restore deprecated support)

This request is to restore support for DB2 PureScale snapshots in Spectrum Protect Snapshot for DB2 V8.1 onward. The client has a need to utilize fully supported Spectrum Protect (formerly FCM) snapshots for HA/DR in a supported DB2 PureScale envi...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

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