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    Add option to add notes and custom annotations to VMs to allow better visibility of backups for VM admins

    Add option to add notes and custom annotations to VMs to allow better visibility of backups for VM admins You should be able to add something like the below as an example. Last Backup Completed Successfully - Yes/NoLast Backup Completed At - 01/01...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    IBM Storage Defender Data Protect support for Oracle oVirt

    Oracle oVirt (bought by Oracle from Red Hat). Per the documentation, oVirt (Red Hat) was supported until version 6.1.8. Now oVirt is part of the new Oracle, but not yet officially supported by Data Protect.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

    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 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

    Prioritise selection of zOS Host Connections in Copy Services Manager

    Have the ability to be able to prioritise/order which zOS system(s) in the zOS Host Connection panel in Copy Services Manager (CSM) is selected. There is the possibility that some zOS systems added as zOS Host Connections may not have equal CPU ca...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

    A flexible way to prestage LV into VTS cache

    Today, there is no native zOS utility available that recalls(prestages) all the needed LogicalVolumes in an effective and automated way back into the VTS cache.
    almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Retention set enhancements for multiple copies and replication

    Currently creating multiple copies of retention sets are restricted. Firstly, you cannot create multiple (tape) copies of a single retention set. Secondly, if a node is replicated between multiple SP servers, you cannot create a retention set on b...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus direct archive to on-prem COS

    Archive in an SPP SLA policy is only available to cloud services (ICOS, AWS, etc). I am requesting that the archive function in SPP allow for S3 connectivity to on-prem COS. I have a similar request in ID#151074.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    OC nodegroup handling

    When dealing with node replication there is sometimes a need to group certain nodes in nodegroups i.e. for more frequent replication than for other nodes. I'd like to see a panel where one can create and display nodes grouped by nodegroup and also...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Preview of mmreclaimspace for a determinate threshold

    The idea is to have a preview of the mmreclaimspace without actually running it to have an idea of how much space will be recovered by a certain threshold. This can be interesting due to the lower the threshold is, the more impacte in performance ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    ENABLE CONDITIONAL-BASED ENUMERATION ON THE ROOT SHARE FOLDER

    Hello team, one of our customers uses Storage Scale for their main file server They access it via SMB and they have requested for the ability to hide the shares/exports from a user that does not have access to them For example, lets say the root s...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Functionality already exists

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