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    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...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future 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.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus - Oracle DB support on Windows

    Small customers use Windows platform for Oracle DB's and current support is only for Oracle DB running on Linux. SPP in not suitable for them and cases are lost. Veeam has such support.
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Error/warning on degraded hosts

    Currently when a host is in degraded state, the events are not showing any warning or error. Hence there is a chance that these degraded hosts goes unnoticed. So I suggest to have a warning/error to be reported in the events for any host went into...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    CES event callback support

    There are no events for CES that can be used with `mmaddcallback`. If I run `mmhealth node eventlog`, I see lots of events, such as nfs_active, nfs_in_grace, handle_network_problem_info, nodestatechange_info, ces_network_ips_down, etc. It would be...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Azure AVS support for Spectrum Protect for VE and SPP

    The client of a BP would like to continue using Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments as they migrate their vmware farm to Microsoft Azure AVS.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future 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 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Is a defect

    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 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Move filespace to another node

    It would be helpful to be able to change the retention of a VM after it has been deleted, without having to restore, rebind, then re-delete. Ideally, we would be able to add a target node name to RENAME FILESPACE, or a new command for MOVE FILESPA...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under 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 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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