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e-mail notification when "Data collector interruption " is resolved

User can chose to receive a notification when "Data collector interruption for IBM Storage Insights" is resolved
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

mmbackup enhancements

mmbackup has no support of application that generate the Content of the same file with a temporary file, and if finish renamed these temp file to original name. SAS-Institute with the *.sas7bdat.lck as temp and *.sas7bdat as original filename are ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Storage Insights Ability to Import a list of Departments and applications by CSV

Our customer is requesting the ability to import Departments and applications via a CSV import mechanism
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Support for SLES 15 using Spectrum Protect DP for HANA

I need a statement of support for DP for ERP SAP HANA on SLES 15
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Planned for future release

mmchconfig and mmvdisk configure need to be more transparent

Today, there is no association between mmvdisk configure and mmchconfig. The RFE is to have one command for setting both GPFS parameters and mmvdisk and for mmvdisk to have a way to preserve any previously customized parameters.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Update of SPP image in Azure Market Place to a more recent version

The customer is deploying SPP on prem and in Azure Cloud. While they are at 10.1.15 in their on-prem setup, the image in Azure market place is still at 10.1.11, which is outdated. Request to update the Azure Marketplace image to at least 10.1.14
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Needs more information

Restore are very slow

Querying of Exchange backups is very slow in a large environments. E.g. in environment with 100+ Exchange mailbox databases and 200 backups per each it take nearly 3 hours. This causes that restores are terribly slow.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

remove systemV init.d script for DSMCAD

The current packaging of TIVsm-BA includes a symbolic link /etc/init.d/dsmcad -> /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/rc.dsmcad which results in the creation of the directory /etc/init.d if it does not already exist. This is incompatible with the chkc...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Support to backup S3-based on-premise Object storage (private cloud) to Tapes using ISP or ISPP

Object storage is trending these days and we want to be able to secure it using IBM Spectrum Protect or IBM SPP on tapes. Currently no option to do so on standard S3 protocol. Other vendors are supporting backing up S3-based object storage into ta...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Planned for future release

V7000 / V3700 / SVC GUI Based Flashcopy Scheduler

Our customers are requesting an enhancement to the V7000 to include a basic scheduler of flashcopies per LUN. EMC and Netapp both offer this compelling feature. Smaller shops do not want to purchase or deal with the complexity of Tivoli Flashcopy ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

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