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Allow migration of Local Page DS volumes

Active Local Page DS volumes are the only volumes that cannot be migrated by TDMF. However, when all active local pages on a volume are set into Drain mode (read only), there should no longer be I/O to the volume that TDMF cannot handle. TDMF coul...
about 2 years ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Future consideration

Restrict ProLE access to host-only

ProLE process listens on port 57321/tcp (configurable, may differ) on all IPs and network adapters for connections. One of our customers stumbled upon this during a security scan and considers it to be a security risk. Since in my understanding Pr...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Planned for future release

Add query volume for NDMP snapmirror backup

Add a query volume option for BACKUP NODE TYPE=SNAPMirror Sample: QUERY BACKUP NODE [node] TYPE=SNAPMirror This would simply the backup for backup operators without access to the NetApp filer. The workaround "BACKUP NODE cluster1node1 TOC=No TYPE=...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus SQL Log backups not snapshotted replicated until DB backups initiated

SQL Log backups in SPP in CIFS share are not snapshotted until the next DB backup and its subsequent snapshot. Similarly, SQL log backup snapshots are only replicated when the SQL DB backup snapshot replication is scheduled.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Protect Plus backups with VMware Storage DRS

Client has VMware Storage DRS enabled. Spectrum Protect Plus checks the previous location of the VM on the datastore. If it has been moved as a result of DRS, it performs a full base backup.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Chaining Opscenters for REST API via one central Opscenter

Having several Opscenters managing several Spectrum Protect Instances, and having currently the restriction only to have 1 Hub server, this makes Management by branches and departments complicated. Therefore we appreciate to group Servers of speci...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Consider SFP specification (LW, ELW, SW) port speed as attribute for alerting creation

SI allow to create alerting related to SFP spec like power or DB, these spec my differ depending of the type of SPF in use Alerting creation should allow to to specify the type of SFP when creating an alerting some spec are as well related to the ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SP Operations Center group assign Alerts

Add a functionality to manage (assign and close) Alerts faster and in groups (bulk selections) in the Spectrum Protect Operations Center. Or make the assignment drop-down menu part of each alert so that it's easier to assign.Please design the OC i...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SP / SPP integrated with CyberArk

Many customers are using cyberark to protect the access to the systems. it is a requirement from a large couple of customers.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Show catalog restore process

When restoring Spectrum Protect Plus catalog, first it takes us to log-in screen.But we can't log-in because "server is being brought" screen come out we need to wait until it's completed.There is no log or information on the screen. We're waiting...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

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