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    VMware Tags support in SPP

    Current VMware Tags support in SPP need to be enhanced so customer can control backups with VMware Tags. GUI Enhancements:SPP GUI need to show VMs added to a policy with a VMware Tag under Hypervisor/Backup/<vCenter>/SLA Policy, similar to i...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Need the ability to seed initial data from source vSnap to target replication vSnap

    A customer has requested the ability to physically send a copy of data on external media from the source vSnap to the site that has the target replication vSnap for ingest rather than send the data over their network. They would like to do this to...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Need SNMPv3 support in CSM

    My customer is moving his monitoring tool to SNMPv3 and he would like to monitor CSM also with SNMPv3 so he's requesting CSM to support SNMPv3.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    TSM4VE backup schedule ends with RC=12 when there is no guest eligible for backup

    Change the RC to 0 or 1 if no virtual guest is eligible for backup but the overall backup status is successful.
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Add TDP for Oracle to Retention Sets type of data that can be included

    Currently, retention sets allow TDP for SQL, B/A Client, TDP for Mail, DP for VE (both VMware and Hyper-V) but only TDP for DB - Oracle is NOT supported and this is reallly needed for long term retention - there's a class of backups that is comple...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    dsmc - more producer threads per filesystem

    Modern SAN storage should not be limited to one producer thread per client filesystem during backups, nor 4 producer threads per DSMC instance. Requesting:A) RESOURCEUTIL max value should be higher, perhaps 20. B) New option, RESTHREADSPERFS, to s...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Identify individual VM backup sessions during a SLA backup

    Once a SLA is running, it would be nice to see in a list which VM's completed the backup successfully, which failed, which are running and which will run, to help monitor and take appropriate actions if needed.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Option to select files to restore from a directory tree view

    SPP to allow file-level restore not just by searching for files or folder, but also by expanding a directory tree to input multiple selections
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Decommission VM confirmation with filespace name

    When decommission is run for example:DECOMMISSION VM VMNAME 999 NAMETYPE=FSID No confirmation of what filespace/vmname is shown. The confirmation message:ANR3392W DECOMMISSION VM: This command will decommission the specified virtual machine. The a...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

    Provide auth and security status of connections via standard mm commands

    It would useful to have the auth and security status of connections/mounts via standard supported mm commands (mmdiag|mmlsmount).
    about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

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