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    Operation Center Client deployment - Package refresh cycle not visible as process

    The package refresh cycle is not visibile on the hub server as a process, so it can not be monitored or observed in any way. it is even not really possible to see if it is running or not. We need to have this as a normal process like all other ope...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Operation Center Client deployment - query state of update package deployment

    We need to be able to query the state of client deployment package distribution to spoke server. So which spoke server has successfully received its deployment package and is ready to update its client nodes, which spoke server failed to receive i...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Operation Center Client deployment - be able to deploy packages with command

    Currently the polling and distributing of client deployment packages occurs every morning at 08:00 on the OC server, it is not officially possible to start this manually. Also if started manually with the undocumented refresh pkg command the proce...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Allow multiple or all SQL DBs selection in adhoc backup

    Customer is requesting the ability to choose multiple DBs or all DBs for SQL Protection when running an adhoc backup via the SPP UI.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support for Tanzu TKGi

    Some bigger customers are heavily invested in Tanzu, this includes Tanzu TKGi. Right now we don't support this with Defender Data Protect.
    12 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    include space-efficient storage display in the lsextpool command

    The space efficient storage is not taken in account in the lsextpool command. I recently wanted to create volume on a DS8K, the lsextpool showed me it was 77% full, but the command ended for a lack of non-ESE extent in the extpool. It took me some...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Enable more than 1 LDAP server for authentication because it is a single point of failure

    System: SPP server 10.1.8Feature: Currently the SPP server only allows for 1 LDAP server entry. This is a single point of failure. There is no redundancy, if that single LDAP server is down there is no way for the team to log-in, because we do not...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

    Improve handling instructions for VTS CBR3750I messages

    The IBM TS7700 hardware produces a lot of information, warning and alert messages in the format of CBRxxxxx – similar to DFSMSrmm and DFSMSoam messages – which may require operator intervention by the client to mitigate or fix errors before escala...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    SPP integration with vmware VIX

    VMware VIX api integration provides a very useful tool to avoid VMware virtual machines can backup/restore indivual files from Hypervisor instead of accessing directly to the VM. VM accesses is not necessary. In many customers, VM networks are not...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    i5/OS (AS/400) Client API Service extension

    Official announcement has been made in Developerworks Wiki that TSM 6.2 API for i5/OS will go out if support the 30th of April 2015.(see https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20Backup,%20Recovery%20and%20Media%...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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