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CSM CSM/FCMGR should implemented support of ALL supported MSS

MSS 3 war introduced 5 year ago (with z13) Page 20 and 21: https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248260.pdf (Now we are migrating from z14 to z15) IBM Utilities / Programs have implemented MSS 3 support (without RFEs) I'll do RFE if this he...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

TSM-VE : better management of VM which have non cleaned snapshots from previous backups

The purpose of this request is to ask product management team two things:- to make available a report, for instance through the vCenter plug-in , that shows if virtual machines that are being protected by TSM-VE, have non cleaned snapshots. It wil...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Centralized include/exclude list for VM backups

Please provide a central location for managing include/excludes for individual VMs, like a client options set.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add Report in Spectrum Protect Plus for daily growth of each vSnap server

One of our Enterprise customer want to know via Report - daily growth of each vSnap server (he has 6 vSnap Servers)
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

IBM SP Protect server support on w2k19

I have to install a new IBM Sectrum protect server.I wish to use the OS Windows 2019 Server but I've seen that IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.9 is not supported on this version.I really wish to use this version of OS (Windows 2019) is possible to know w...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Add the ability to restart the CSM service from the GUI or API

In some companies the CSM administrator does not have administrative control of the servers or instances that it runs on. There are times when a restart of the CSM service is required (certificate updates, server changes, etc). Being able to resta...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Exclude File System Type

Would like to exclude per the file system type.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Better ability to filter out nodes when creating retention rule

In an big vmware deployment you want your retention rules to be as dynamic as possible. That is you want ability to create an advanced filter to filter out the virtual machines (VM's) to be included in the retention set. In an vmware environment y...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Session recovery via query

CSM is currently designed to stop monitoring underlying replication in an event where certain types of communication failures occur with a subsystem (say after panic/warmstart). It's designed this way to not inadvertently monitor relationships tha...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect OSSM support for SPP on Windows platform

We have many customers using SP server on Windows and running SPP in Hyper-V on top of it, we want to get rid of SPP vSnap but we can't do it when using SP server on Windows. And we can't deploy SP on Linux with SPP in KVM because SPP in KVM is no...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

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