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REST api for dsmadmc

We are doing some "automated" tasks in Spectrum Protect and we are currently doing it by calling dsmadmc.exe (and args). But starting such an process for every request is rather time consuming - and heavy cpu/memory on the Windows machine (having ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Support of custom tolerations for Fusion base, backup services and non-core services

Reduce VPC requirements on worker nodes, reducing cost of CPK and OCP licenses allowing base & backup services to run on infra-nodes
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

CSM - Automatically Synchronise Standby Server Sessions After IPL.

We have two DS8000 Controllers in a full MM - Hyperswap Configuration. We have two CSM Sessions running on two different LPARS in our SYSPLEX. ( LPAR1 (Primary ) and LPAR2 (Standby) ) We observe that after IPL of the LPAR2 ( Configured as the Stan...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

SPP filesystem backup support

SPP Physical server backup server support is required mainly for file server
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Segregation of Duties in Spectrum Protect server

Client wants to completely segregate the authority to manage accounts in Spectrum Protect from all other Spectrum Protect authorizations.Current setup where a System account is required to manage admin IDs and -rights which includes all other righ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Provide meaningfull names for volumes created by HyperSwap volume pair allocation by CLI and GUI

When allocating an HyperSwap volume pair, the client input naming the HyperSwap volume (let's assume it is new_HS_volume) is only used to name the Master copy of the quadruplet created by the allocation dialogue. The 3 other volumes (Auxiliary, Ma...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - offloading data

The data offload/data copy options currently available in Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.7 do not offer enough flexibility in terms of what data types can be sent to what offload destination (cloud or repository server).If you also want to send SPP da...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

youtube tv contact number customer services +1(833) 756-4415

YouTube TV is a popular streaming service that allows users to watch live TV and on-demand content. While the platform is known for its seamless user experience, there may be instances where you need to reach out to their customer support team for...
6 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Ubuntu 22.04 lin_tape support

More and more applications are running on Ubuntu and we see a larger increase of request to add tape support for multiple applications such IBM Storage Protect, Storage Scale and other running on Ubuntu. But to combine does applications with a tap...
6 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

Bring back the Spectrum Protect Web Client

What was our main way of doing restores and manual backups is now gone. For over twenty years I have used tsm - spectrum protect and using the web client which was big part of that time. Without it we have to remote desktop to servers taking away ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

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