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    Operation Center Anomaly Reporting Improvement

    Right the anomaly reporting of OC is very basic and not very usefull. There is no good way to export it and create a daily list of client nodes with anomalies and what type of anomalies are those. We would like to be able: Generate a daily spreads...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    SCDM - CDM/Sentinel - Post snapshot script run before Sentinel scan starts

    Clients using Sentinel Scan engine needs a way to kickoff a Post Snap script before the Scan Engine gets started for Sentinel. This will allow clients the ability to get some work done before a long scan run, such at 15-20 hours.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    File Recovery Options in SPP

    Client expects more innovative and easy to use features when it comes to file recovery in SPP. Customer expect modern software to be as easy to use as an iPhone! Non Indexed VM:It should be possible to recover files from a non-indexed VM. Function...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Make the time interval for "ANR3654W Inventory file expiration processing did not run in the previous 24 hours" configurable

    The message ANR3654W is shown even if an expire inventory schedule was executed every day at 4pm, because the detailed time frame including seconds is checked for the message. The request is either check not on detailed second (maybe a minute or 5...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Accuracy of Spectrum control summary overall storage usage , it didnt show sum up virtual capacity of SGC volumes

    Spectrum Control is not accurate enought. DS8K business today is very often using the SGC Backup as majors tactics to protect against cyber threats. Would be very very valuable to have this storage capacity easy to be followed up from a simple GUI...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Forecast of remaining Restore Duration

    Dynamically get a Forecast by spectrum protect Server of the remaining Restore Duration for Restores of Databases and File Restore
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Support ISC running on VMware ESXi 7.0 VM

    According to the support page, VMware ESX and ESXi 5.5.x, 6.0.x, 6.5.x, 6.7.x are supported but not ESXi 7.0. IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.x - Server Platformshttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-control-54x-server-platforms#shyperv
    about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

    CBR3750I message issued during service prep mode, because of service prep mode

    When a TS7700 cluster is put in service prep mode for maintenance (RCL, for example), it ignores that it is in service prep mode and continues to issue CBR3750I message as if it was not. Some of those CBR messages generate false positive ticket an...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Login with certificates during file indexing on Linux

    Case number: TS000844605 Customer REQUIRES use of certificates when logging into the Linux environment, currently SPP does not support login with certificates during indexing of files.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Save the last copy

    We have seen scenarios where VMware Virtual Machines just disrepair out from vCenter because of VMX file has been corrupted, or has been deleted of mistake.And because of the server or service hasn't been that important or been used that offend. W...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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