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Session status failed -99 received before schedule duration not ended

Hello, Description: Please be informed that when some SP client is reboot (Because OS patching) during the backup, SP server report event "failed -99". 6/12/24, 22:23:34 ANR0480W Session 2335563 for node [Node_name] (Linux x86-64) terminated - con...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Display of Servers --> Maintenance tasks history improvement

Tasks which run into the next day are shown in the history as running and not finished. The history seems to only check the job in one day. It should check the process id for the finished or aborted status. Also it would be helpful to see the dura...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Allow the ability to stop a FlashCopy session (Storage Virtualize Family)

When managing FlashCopy sessions (not volume group based) from CSM, the only available commands for any given FC session are: Discover Start Flash Restore Terminate surprisingly, the ability of stopping a session is missing. You can terminate it, ...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

Allow user to display "volume full name" and "volume short name" at his conveniance using existing table twistie

In huges banking Z/os csm implamentation, we can deal with many DS8000 having each more than 100 000 volumes. Having this ability will avoid fingerchecks when usin CSM GUI to perform troubleshooting tasks when things are not work as expected.
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect scheduler - better handling MISSED Event

We're struggling in meeting the SLA because of MISSED backup. After investigation most of the missed backup we have here is hourly backup schedules being missed because a FULL backup or INCR backup is running for that same client node. Would it be...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

SPP: Extend Retention period for existing backup

SPP: Extend Retention period for existing backupWe need an option to change expiration date for already taken backup to desired value. For example to change it to expire in 1 year instead of 1 month with which it was taken.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Incremental Hyper-V Backup Like TDP for VE (VMware)

Please add the ability to perform incremental backups for Hyper-V using either the standard TSM BA Client or TSM for VE in a similar way as is provided for VMware backups.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Planned for future release

Request for Possible improvement in SP4VE GUI

In the GUI via WEB of SP4VE, when you access to perform a restore, the different datastorages appear where each machine that we have in backup to be able to do restores is located inside. The problem is that there is no search engine to search for...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Functionality already exists

DS8000 Dynamic Volume Expansion and Copy Services.

I want the ability to continue to use Dynamic Volume Expansion even while my DS8886 DASD Volumes are currently in a Copy Services (GC,FC,MM) session. You have effectively removed Dynamic Volume Expansion from ever being used again if involved in a...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Toolkit support for separated admin and daemon network

Due to security, some clients have different IPs for daemon and for admin network, in a Spectrum Scale Cluster, and current version of Toolkit does not support different networks.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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