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    Create, modify and remove TSM scripts

    We want the functionality to create, modify and remove TSM/SP scripts from the Operation Center. This was a standard functionality in Tivoli Intergrated Portal but is not availible in the OC
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    SPP monitoring for Ticket

    SPP failure alerts support for monitoring tools
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus support for Db2 Purescale

    Customer who has majority of database residing on Db2 of which 90%+ of those databases are Db2 Purescale requires support for this platform in Spectrum Protect Plus.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Disable attempts to cleanup IBM Flash array snapshots after Devender SAN backup/restore

    When the current version of Defender runs a backup or recovery operation for a SAN source, a snapshot will be created of the configured storage, the backup/recovery operation completed and then a cleanup of the snapshot is attempted. Normally this...
    11 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

    The VTS TS7700 should return other reason UNknown in TVILCAT when the VTS is in write protect mode due to a DR.

    When CBRXLCS macro want to change a category, i receive UN on LIBRARY MANAGER CATEGORY CONSTANTS FOR TVILCAT from CBRTVI macro.The VTS TS7700 return UN because the VTS is in write protect mode due to a DR and because the category DEVSUPxx is not e...
    11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    Spectrum Protect Plus SLA removal options

    When removing SLA in Spectrum Protect Plus the following options should be presented:1. Delete now2. Preserve until retention expires3. Retention hold
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Operation Center - Security Notification Enhancement

    Hello Team, Looking for some enhancement for Operation center, Security Notification Feature
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Treeview of copies

    Why don't you add a graphical view of the copies ? It is not easy manage the copies without having a global view of source disks and related copies. Something similar to the attached picture or by exploring a treeview
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Backup on AIX nodes managed by PowerHA

    The High Availability configuration of Power AIX systems is made up of two or more real nodes to which volumes and IP addresses are associated and then managed by PowerHA. In this configuration there are therefore at least three types of volumes:...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Full Copy

    By default backup jobs create the first copy as a full copy on thin volumes. Being a full copy, the 80% threshold set as a warning value is always exceeded, generating emails and alarm events. Is it possible to set by default the value to 0 (disab...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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