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Storage Insights to Allow CSV Reporting for Consumer and Chargeback Reports

Please add the ability to send CSV attachments of the Consumer and Chargeback reports, as have been added for the other reports available in Storage Insights. Also if there can be an option to add a line with totals at the bottom of each report th...
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Operation center does not support working with server groups

Because of the size of our environment (30 servers) we use servergroups for several things like for instance routing a command to several servers at once. The use, creation and modification of server groups is currently not supported in operation ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

NDMP Restore function for normal GUI client

Please implement NDMP filelevel restore functions in the normal GUI client like they were in the webgui client.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus backup support for VMWare Tanzu TKG container environment

An important italian customer with a large SP and SPP installation has already implemented OpenShift backup with SPP. He has also container environments based on VMWare Tanzu TKG and he needs to protect such environment. My request is about the su...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add monthly projections to the IBM Storage Protect (TSM) sizer tool

The IBM Storage Protect Sizer tool does not provide monthly projections...only yearly projections. We would like the IBM Storage Protect Sizing tool to be enhanced to also give monthly projections. This is particularly of interest to plan deliver ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Tape 7700 CUIR Function Enhancement - Vary one device Online for testing purpose while the Cluster in Service Mode

First: What is it? Vary one device Online for testing purpose while the Cluster in Service Mode using CUIR Function before bring the Cluster back to Online mode using GUI. At Now, we bring the Cluster in Service Prep, then finish what need to be d...
9 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

multi-tenant requirement for POSIX interface

The ESS storage is manged by customer storage department. the clients are from different business departments. The customer takes NFS interface for data access. The customer wants to take POSIX interface for their clients because of performance. H...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect : Protect stg from Directory container to Cloud Container

Current TSM do not support Protect STG from Directory container to Cloud container. with Cloud Teiring its support Move of the data from directory container to Cloud container, but we dont have a way to only copy of the data. When you dont have lo...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 7 Not under consideration

Test Restore Periodically

Restore customer data Periodically without needing of system outage or stand by system.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Restore of backed up Hyper-V VMs from a replica source where replica vm name is the same may fail

Based on APAR IT34036, backing up Hyper-V VMs from a replica source where replica vm name is the same as the original virtual machine name can result in data to become unrecoverable because the state of the original vm and the replica may differ (...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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