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    SPP connection to ILMT

    In our environment we collect all necessary licenses with ILMT for IBM spectrum protect. In SPP 10.1. according the documentation license requirements could be captured with ILMT (Chapter 19. Licensing).But with clarification on ILMT-side (TS00381...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Operation Center - Logs and alerts for attempted or executed Restricted commands, new admin creation and change of password

    System: Operation Center - all platformsActor: User needing new feature Description: List of potential destructive/restricted commands attempted and executed in last 24 hrs in alert section. Also, a mechanism to send email alerts each time restric...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Updating MI Write-Protect Mode

    Enable the ability to do a copy to clusters when adding excluded categories when setting up Write-Protect mode. This would make it easier for the cluster to setup instead of having to go cluster by cluster. This is especially important when you ha...
    4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    GUI snapshot deletion from oldest to newest

    Due to inode manipulation, it is a best practice and less effort to the GPFS to delete the oldest snapshot first. However, when doing the snapshot deletion manually, in the client using the GUI, it should also order it from oldest to newest.This w...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Support larger tape ranges in the Selective Device Access Control tape range table

    The SDAC tape range table supports 50 entries total. A range of A00000-A99999 covers 100K tape volumes. My client uses letters in the second position of the tape volser (A-Z). I have to enter a range such as AA0000-AA9999 (covers 10K tape volumes)...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Powershell interface to dsmc and dsmadmc

    Powershell is becoming the scripting language of choice for windows. It is difficult to call existing dsmc and dsmadmc command line tools from powershell and reasonably process the output. Powershell has an object pipeline model and file output do...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Allow repair stg to use any storage pool from target replication server to recover data

    Configuration: Replica source Storage is container pool only Copy pool exist on tape Replica target Storage is container pool with tiering to tape or S3 after X days Copy pool exist on tape Scenario When the source detects a bad file/object with a...
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    parallel session when using node replication from tape

    Need support for parallel session when using node replication from tape.When for example run a RMAN Backup with 4 session to tape, we can replicate the data with 4 sessions over 4 tape and 4 drives to other side. With Node Replication only one ses...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    SPVE needs a Parameter to ignore failed quiesced snapshot if its not the last try

    SPVE marks a schedule run with Warning if for one vm in the schedule one try to make a quiesced snapshot fails. This behavior makes no sense if INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS is set to more than one quiesced snapshot try. It only makes sense if the la...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

    Firmware Check

    System: TS4500Actor: Customer Commerzbank is asking for enhancements regarding library firmware check.Case was opened on behalf of client Commerzbank as a follow up for a critical situation.
    almost 6 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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