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    Running jobs on an SLA consecutively

    Spectrum Protect Plus allows us to run all jobs on a schedule. When replicating, copying or archiving a backup data we need to set a time to the job.But sometimes backups take more time than usual and in that case replication and/or copy job fails...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Trigger email/report when sla run contains failed vms

    If a job that has run contains failed vms, sytem should send out email/report to pre-defined address to report this incident.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    SP Operations Center Reports in Attached Format

    SP Operations Center Reports in Attached Format
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Commands in FS7200 CLI needs more verbosity levels

    In troubleshooting connections and logins, ie inside DNS, LDAP, Proxy, Call Home tests then cli does not give enough information. All the time snaps are needed and then look into those to troubleshoot.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    selectable DIO/nonDIO-Support on Storagepools

    we are working now in our TSM-Environment with a complete implementation of GPFS as the the filesystem layer for our TSM-Plattfom on AIX and Linux. With the possibility to use many performance function in gpfs we can massively enhance our performa...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Set permission for support: with customized client message or schedule of when collection of support data is allowed

    Currently client can define in “set permission for support” if he allows support to collect support data without asking the client in advance This new feature will allow customer to either set a customized message 1/ ““Please collect data via SI o...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    SPP File restore selection and Progress

    SPP File restore has good feature but selecting restore files is really not easy.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    SPP: NAT connection trough dedicated vLAN

    SPP server has configured NAT with additional 3 network IP's. The same vLAN's are configured in the vSNAP server + proxy combo (IBM appliance).During Backup/Restore operation SPP communicate with client with correct IP (different than managment). ...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

    Add REST API function to LIST the current certificate installed on DS8K systems

    Hello team, Our team is working with a customer to automate certificate management for certificates installed on RACF, installed on DS8K, and installed on zHMC, to facilitate this process, reduce the amount of effort and decrease the change of hav...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Prevent Maintenance Tasks from reporting a warning when behaving as expected.

    SPP can display events in the maintenance task, such as snapshots locked because of dependencies, as a warning in the summary dashboard. These however are expected behaviour with no action required. Displaying such events as a warning can be misle...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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