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    Support for HCL Domino Server 14

    HCL Domino Server 14 has been available for some time now. The Storage Protect Agent for Mail/Domino does not yet support this version. Since we and various other customers are due to update their HCL Domino servers to version 14, I would like to ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Planned for future release

    Summary of how time is spent on a job in dsminstr.log - i.e. by percentage to easily determining the primary bottlenecks

    Currently, all the information in the dsminstr.log is by thread, and it would be fantastic to know how to summarize this information on a job-level. This is very hard - if not impossible - to do in the current state, as all information is per thre...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Needs more information

    better LDAP and MS AD integration in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

    Better and easier integration of LDAP, especially complex Microsoft Active Directory for Spectrum Protect Plus. The functionality and setting options are currently too limited.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Show which backup is full and which is incremental as listed

    Spectrum Protect Plus backs up as first full and then incremental forever. In some cases CBT can be erased so SPP needs to take full backup.We can see if the backup is full or incremental on the backup job logs.But we need to examine all the backu...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    Allow CSM ports on z/OS to BIND to specific VIPA

    Copy Services Manager has multiple listening ports. By default on z/OS it listens on ALL VIPA addresses defined on the system. This causes audit failures from TCPIP security scans. We would like to be to specify in xml or properties file the VIPA ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Summary Report

    Need a dashboard style report showing key performance figures for management. Current reports are PDFs containing long lists of information. There is no equivalent of the ‘General Operations' report that is produced by Operations Center for Spectr...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Unprotected VMs View

    At present it is quite hard to answer the question ‘what am I not backing up'. SPP displays a summary of this on the home page (Source Protection) and the Policy Overview page. On neither of these can I just click on the number shown and see a lis...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SPP : User to do FLR limitations

    The user defined to catalog file metadata has to have all sudo permissions and this can be a security problem. Our Customer wants the list of sudo commands necessaries to catalog file metadata and restore files in the servers.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    CSM scheduledtask based on calendar day

    We need scheduling at specific calendar day/timeSelecting single or multiple day
    over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Needs more information

    support RHEL6, SLES11 and Debian in Scale 5.0

    Add support for RHEL6, Debian and SLES11 to Scale 5.0.
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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