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Add navigation arrows to timeframes in Spectrum Control - Storage Insights

Add navigation arrows to timeframes in Spectrum Control - Storage Insights.
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

TS7700 MI - Inbound SSH (TCP Port 22) command line access to be allowed

Management Interface Inbound SSH (TCP Port 22) command line access to be allowed. This will provide functionality for IBM remote support personnel to directly access TS7700 while servicing without a need to connect via TSSC private network.
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Add a administrative socket to the SP server

Add a administrative socket to the dsmserv process, or a alternative way to send commands to the running process at the local system.Using the the dsmadmc is relay hard for scripting and always needs password to be specified.A socket is simple to ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP micro version

We are an IBM business partner and have small and large scale customers.Spectrum Protect Plus is set for 48 GB 1000 VMs with minimum ram requirement, but we also have many customers with 50 -100 VMs.These customers think 48 GB is too much for ram ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data management duplicate job option

Customer would like the ability in the jobs tab.The ability to right click a job and to duplicate.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

CSM estimated completion time via CSMCLI.

1. CSM estimated completion time via CSMCLI Of Flash Copy Command Hi, We would like to have a report generated with CSMCLI Command who will give the completion of the FlashCopy Ce can see dynamically the completion with GUI.But if we want to follo...
about 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

SPP during Resouce Registration have option to sign to resource group

During customer Meeting, it was asked if during registration of resource they could have the ability to assign resource to a resource group
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect/TSM NDMP Support for Fujitsu ETERNUS AX/HX series

We would like to see the ETERNUS AX/HX series added to the list of supported devices so that we can backup the system using Spectrum Protect/TSM and NDMP. https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/storage/all-flash-arrays/ax.htmlhttps://ww...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

IBM SPP Should keep job logs for restores longer

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus keeps job logs for restores only 3 days. This is not sufficient for historical reporting purposes. The retention of job logs, including those for restore operations should be user-configurable, and the default should be s...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Tiring by occupancy

Add the ability to define tiring rule, that takes node occupancy into account.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration