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Spectrum Protect Plus - G Suite support needed

We need local backup for ours users who has been migrate from Domino to G Suite.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Set permission for support: with customized client message or schedule of when collection of support data is allowed

Currently client can define in “set permission for support” if he allows support to collect support data without asking the client in advance This new feature will allow customer to either set a customized message 1/ ““Please collect data via SI o...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Provide option to prevent object-splitting on tape

Having clients archiving and restoring directly to and from tape we're trying to have the least possible amount of tape mounts. However at the end of a lot of tapes the last file gets split when EOV occurs. There should be an option to consider a ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP integration with vmware VIX

VMware VIX api integration provides a very useful tool to avoid VMware virtual machines can backup/restore indivual files from Hypervisor instead of accessing directly to the VM. VM accesses is not necessary. In many customers, VM networks are not...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Need larger DB2 active log file size

While working on HADR, a DB2 specialist noted that DB2 under SP was archiving the active log at a higher than normal rate and recommended increasing the current DB2 LOGFILSIZ to make it ten (10) times larger. However, the customer was unable to ma...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Print QR code when setting up MFA in dsmadmc

The new MFA/TOTP support for admin accounts is great, but it's cumbersome to set up when using dsmadmc due to the need to manually enter the shared secret in the MFA smartphone app. The solution is to print a QR code, and that works fine even in a...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Decomission of VM

We are waiting for documemtation on how Decomission of VMs work in SPP, Case number TS0008726 Typically we do see that customer want to do one of 3 things (in order of most common) when a VM is decomissioned:Store VM for a certain time, for exampl...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add Logical Volume MiB used to TS7700 search engine

The TS7700 Virtual Tape system knows about the space used for each logical volume with data, but the search logical volume panel does not have an option to report on volume usage, and its critical.
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Support GC-GC cascaded start option in 3 site MT sessions

When using CSM for migration scenarios in 3 site topologies, a typical approach is to migrate via PPRC Failover or HyperSwap from old MGM cascade to a new GC-GC cascade. Today, the new GC-GC cascade requires to use temporary 2 site MM sessions bei...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

mmhealth should complain about NSDs which have lost one path

Listing the NSDs shows that some of themhave only one path available. One of the two servers of a building block does not see the Volume:[root@justnsd01a ~]# mmlsnsd -f cesSharedRoot -X Disk name NSD volume ID Device Devtype Node name Remarks ----...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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