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    storage insight- Volume by host details

    it will very easy to full the volume details which host it connected
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Submitted

    Restart failed backup

    SPP should provide the option to restart backups and try again to protect failed VMs of the previous run.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Disable ransomware alert for specific nodes

    Ransomware detection is always on, and cannot be disabled. Every login has a pink banner because 5 nodes are never near their long-term average for size and dedupe ratio.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Planned for future release

    Parallelised fusion IO updates on big clusters

    When doing upgrades on big clusters, IO stack update is taking a huge time, going out of maintenance window as machineconfig is changed one by one when doing the drain of scale nodes. UPdate process needs to be improved to reduce maintenance window
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 4

    Add possibility to change SQL agent communication IPs

    The SPP SQL Agent needs to communicate with the ISP GUI to get the credentials for mounting the SMB log volume from the vSnap.Unfortunately it's not possible to change the IP or network which is used for this communication. This is a big issue in ...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    authentication and authorization mechanism for application groups and general groups

    Customer is India's Largest MSP and deployed A9000R with Spectrum Control. Customer requires functionalities which is part of Public Cloud Feature.(i) Managing Domains of A9000 (HSM) through Spectrum Control as single Console would help them to ma...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

    SQL Recovery Model change is not properly handled

    ISPP doesn't handle changes of the SQL recovery model from "full" to "simple" as it would be suitable for a enterprise product.When a DB with Log Backup enabled is changed to simple recovery model, there will be warnings that the log backup is fai...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    cert_distribute.sh script should allow customers to input a list of client nodes

    In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 queries the Storage Protect server for all its Storage Protect client nodes, does some filtering to select only supported platforms, and then will asso...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    TSM operation center reporting issue with DB size of TSM instances in GPFS cluster

    TSM DB size was wrongly reported in operations center for instances configured in same GPFS cluster. all instances are reporting GPFS clustered file system size Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center 7.1.4
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

    Add certificate JKS synchronizing between Primary and Standby Servers

    Our INSOSEC department does not allow any self-signed certificates in our environment. All certificates must be CA-Signed. We currently run our Primary CSM on z/OS to make it simple to manage Hyperswap sessions. We run our Standby Servers on HMC s...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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