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select to get damaged containers in OC reports

The command QUERY DAMAGED <STGPOOLNAME> type=container is nice in order to see any damaged containers, however in Operations Center Reporting it is not possible to do the same command and there is no equivalent select statement available as ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

Support of HyperV VM tags to select resources to backup

Ability to select the resources to backup based on VM tags in a HyperV environment (same functionality as for VMware)
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SAEE - Ability to change behavior of tape drive selection mechanism for transparent recalls to use also redundant copy and distribute workload to all copies

Customer can use all available HW resources - all tape drives in all tape libraries for transparent recalls and increase throughput of recalls. It could be fine If I can set copies which will be available for transparent recalls. Customer faces pr...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

SPP VM Backup report shape

VM backup report : all VMmane and details need to be on 1 line only to be usable for further use of selecting and data filtering. I attached VM_Backup_new_look_proposal.xls file which illustrate how we wish to have it. All build-in reports should ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus File level Restores

Spectrum Protect Plus Restoration and cataloging not very user friendly.It would be nice if you can select and tick the folders and files you want restored. similar to Spectrum Protect (TSM) & Backup Exec and other backup software.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

more granular scheduling in Spectrum Protect OC Reports

The OC accepts only scheduled reports for daily or weekly. No Day of week or month nor time could be selected separately for each configured report.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

IBM TS4300 Tape Automation

Could you please assist us with an issue we're experiencing with our IBM TS4300? When my team needs to load or eject tapes, the process has become very time-consuming. Is it possible to automate this process? We would like to select multiple tapes...
5 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

SPP File restore selection and Progress

SPP File restore has good feature but selecting restore files is really not easy.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Allow multiple or all SQL DBs selection in adhoc backup

Customer is requesting the ability to choose multiple DBs or all DBs for SQL Protection when running an adhoc backup via the SPP UI.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TS7700 Rsyslog add possibility to select log types that are sent using RSyslog

From the MI we can select the messages that we want to send to a Rsyslog server but not the log types. From the documentation: Items 0 through 15 are system defaults and items 16 through 18 are specific to TS7700. So we wish to be able to select o...
about 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration