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The virgo log needs to be consistent with SPP server timezone.

The virgo log is written in UTC timezone, which is hard-code. SPP time zone is set as per SPP server location. When we analyze virgo log for any problem, it is difficult to corelate with time as SPP time zone is different. So instead of hardcoding...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 GUI needs information on G0013 message

Over a weekend we received G0013 messages from our VTS's indicating loss of network access between the clusters in the grid. When attempting to diagnose the issue we logged on but saw no evidence in the Events log that would indicate a network out...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Is a defect

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

SP SERVER/OP CENTER: ENHANCE OPERATONS CENTER TO MANIPULATE ALL THE SCHEDULING FUNCTIONS AS IN SERVER COMMAND LINE

Enhance Operations Center with the same functions to control Client Scheduling with the same options present with Server Command Line in a WEB/GUI Interface and view.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Capacity/trending charting and/or min|max|avg for a given time series for a given Application Group

Ability to create utilization charts/trends that span over a selected time series for applications or groups. We have the ability to see snapshot data today, but no easy way to see the data over time. I would like to be able to see a similar graph...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Request for a Server option to prevent the server to pass the communication options for a replication target to a client

Starting with version 7.1 a client can failover to a replication target for restoring data. If the client is enabled and configured for replication on the server, the client receives the communication options for the target and adds the informatio...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Improve effectiveness of node replication process

The effectiveness of the node replication process needs to be improved, when data is located on FILEDEV device class based storage - in order to be better able to utilize the maximum defined number of sessions when possible.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

eeadm show task show progress of files migrated

When a migration task start and a lot of files are inside the task to migrate, no progress is shown about how many files have been migrated already to know how much time a task will take to finish or how is advancing.
about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Archive support for AFM DR

Hi, A Large Spectrum Scale customer in Israel who use AFM DR, asked us to find him a solution for archiving in the primary site. the customer asking this because he has more than 1PB relevant for archive in production site and he is willing to inv...
about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

Include a section with fix number and description of fixes in the release notes

One of my customers opened a support case for an issue with CSM, the Support team found out they hit a bug in CSM and suggested to upgrade the CSM to a newer version (6.3.6.0) that included the fix, but they were not able to find any information i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

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