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SPP Report section is limited and restricted by predefined shape which cant cover customer needs.

We need to have option to remove lines from report to report just relevant data for customer. For example: Predefined VM Backup History report contain : SLA Policy, Protection Time, Status Backup, Storage Backup, Size, Backup Speed,VM: HOSTNAME,Hy...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Deleted VM expiration by TSM for VE

The classical implementation of TSM for VE relies on one or multiple Datamover node processing the backups (let's say at least one). A Datamover node is usually not the "master" node, i.e. the datamover node is a proxy node of the main "container"...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Update Management Class for backups/archives in TSM

in our environment TSM is used for data availability (systems and applications backups), and for data retention (archives of historical data).We have the case of files archived all with the same criteria -so the same Management Class- but now we r...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Oracle log backup status

The status of the Oracle log backup is found only in the job log. We would like the log backups to be more visible and easy to check for success or failure. If a failure of the Oracle DB is bad, we need to see a failure on the backup job on the da...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DS8000 equipps IP port for PPRC link use

DS8000 PPRC links are configured via FC ports. When the distance is over 100km, FCIP converters are used for WAN connection. My customer who manages system z server and storage environments hope to use IP ports for PPRC links because he wants to d...
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Provide method to move VMs & associated backups between different data centers

We have a deployment coming up where the VMWare administrators are creating a new data center within the same vCenter and VMs from the existing data centers are going to be moved to the new data center. I opened a PMR to find out if there was a wa...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale Management API Version 2 should support SMB exportacls

The Spectrum Scale management API Version 2 includes commands for managing SMB exports, like Create/Modify/Delete an SMB share.These command represent the 'mmsmb export' cli commands. The API Version 2 must provide an equivalent for the 'mmsmb exp...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Allow JBB daemon to process files without a full backup completion stamp

Allow JBB daemon to start track files immediately, and upon request from dsmc using jbb, give the file list straight away. The full backup can be run in parallel, and may take weeks to complete, but the deltas can be backed up straight away.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Add CIFS/NFS to spectrum Virtualize

Hello,A lot of customers are disappointed with the lack of files protocols on midrange storage.With the end of sales of V7K unified we are facing a major issue. All competitors are providing equivalent solution, and I think that building a solutio...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Include VMware Tools in Spectrum Discover appliance

To be able to make consistent backups of Spectrum Discover appliance, please include open-vm-tools in the OVA version of Spectrum Discover, and please include upgrades of open-vm-tools as a part of the Spectrum Discover upgrade.
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

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