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Support vSnap migration by re-mapping the back-end volumes to another server

Support a vSnap migration from back-end disks from one server to a different server by re-mapping the back-end volumes to the new server
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Idle session timeout for Spectrum Protec Plus Web UI

It should be possible to automatically cancel inactive Web UI sessions according to your own settings. As it is now, inactive sessions are kept active forever. This is a security risk.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Allow multiple REST sessions per user

We wrote some checks for an external event management system that query several parameters and events from the storage arrays through REST API. As we have multiple checks and a clustered event management infrastructure we sometimes have 2 or more ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

Support of Sharedmemory feature for TSM (ISP) DB Backup on Windows Platforms

Dear Dev. team,Please incorporate support of sharedmemory feature for TSM DB backup on Windows Platforms.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) "What's New" Operations Center Feed

Spectrum Protect customers often are unaware when new versions of the solution are released and what relevant new features are added. This often causes issues as the applications and software they are protecting continues to update and requires sp...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

MS SQL support for Linux Host (both physical and virtual)

Customer will start tests this year with MS SQL on Linux. This will be tested on physical machines as well as on virtual appliances. They also need to backup this databases. At the moment ISP for Databases and ISP4VE only supports MS-SQL on Windows.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

More granularity for Retention Rule

To be able to choose directory(ies) in Retention Rule to have more flexibility. Most of the time, needs are to create a retention set on specific directory, not all the filespace.SP well know all the backed up directories and files from a node. Th...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Log server tcp port as well together with client ip/port in access log.

Today the server logs entries similar to the following: 03/03/22 09:02:58 ANR0406I Session 83331 started for node HOST.EXAMPLE.COM (Linux x86-64) (SSL host.example.com[dead:beef::1]:45186). (SESSION: 83331) However, there is no logging of which se...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TDP for MS SQL FCM GUI Customization

The way information is displayed in the FCM GUI interface, restore tab, is cumbersome to use, especially when dealing with multiple instances. We should be able to customize the column layout, and sort on multiple columns.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TS7700 COPY ENTIRE POOL DATA TO NEW EMPTY POOL

We need to copy a pool to e new empty one by a simple fonction in TS7700 GUI
about 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

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