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My votes: Storage Protect Family

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Exclude VMs from Sources Protected number.

If I tag a VM with something like ‘no_backup' or just don't include it in an SLA it is still counted in the total number of VMs protected. There are some VMs (desktops, Citrix, Web, etc) where you may have a single configuration server and then ma...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DEACTIVATE DATA command enter a list of nodes, or date range or possibly of another platforms (DB2, SQL) NODEGROUP

Will DEACTIVATE commands be able to be executed to enter a series a series of NODES, or for a NODEGROUP? Will the commands be able to be executed for a certain date range, and not only with the current option of TODATE=TODAY-xx days? Is it planned...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Setting the Overview by Server on the Operations Center

Having on the Overview page of the Operations Center the possibility to filter the information by server.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Secondary control for Adminstraive schedule jobs

This is a basic request. When a administrator leaves the company or change of project, per process the respective admin ID should be deleted from Spectrum Protect ( remove admin ). However the "remove admin" command just process the deletion reque...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

additional info collumns to job monitoring

Please add additional colums for Total transfer size and Throughput in overview of jobs. (Monitoring)
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect for VE - "Wrong" Platform Name for Node using SP BA Client on Datamover server

When we use Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment to back VMWare Virtual Machines we have "Spectrum Protect for VE" and "Spectrum Protect BA client" installed on the same machine. To backup VMs we create Data Mover node name DATAMOVER_NAME . Th...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add SNMP monitoring capabilities to CDM

The IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management appliance does provide SMTP to send alerts when an SLA or job fails.For integration in monitoring/event management tools, the ability to select SNMP trap sending is required.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CDM appliance self-monitoring

The functionality of the CDM processes themselves should be monitored on the appliance and the possibility to receive alerts when the main CDM program has problems.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Please implement a "relabel_empty" feature similar to relabel_scratch, VTLs need it

Please implement a "relabel_empty" feature similar to relabel_scratch, VTLs need it. With the "relabel_empty" feature cartridges will be relabeled when they are assigned the status of EMPTY again after being freed up. The write from begin of tape,...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SPP monthly storage & billling report

Report to customer how the allocated SPP storage is used in order to know the space used by each backup nodes.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

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