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    Allow exclude vm disks in the TSM4VE GUI (or select/include only particular disks to be backed up for a VM)

    We utilise TSM4VE to take backups of the system disk only of virtual servers like SQL. TSM4VE requires manual entries in the dsm.opt file. This is cumbersome and error prone, and having inclusions for disks available in the GUI would make this pro...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    List of expired logical volumes

    When an expire hold is set on the TS77, the System deletes every hour an amount of tapes. We'd like to know what is deleted or even better, what will be deleted on a certain date. Having this list in zOS, we can compare the Information with the RM...
    about 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Add hyperlinks from status icons on SPP Dashboard

    When accessing the Dashboard the customer would like to have the summary sections at the top of the screen as hyperlinks.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Add JCL to IWNALLOC for SAMPLIB & ASAMPLIB

    Please add JCL in the IWNALLOC.JCL file to include SAMPLIB and ASAMPLIB.
    over 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    parallel threads of volume / vdisk migation in SVC GUI

    It is not possible to change the amount of threads for vdisk / volume migrations between mdiskgroups / pools inside the SVC GUI version 6.x
    almost 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

    Add alert condition with " Normal status"

    I would like to create an alert that trigger for example when the host connection is <=1, but this alert should not trigger when customer is performing a code upgrade or rebooting a node , this is the reason I need a condition that that say Nod...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Ability to Offload/Copy ALL VSNAP DATA to Cloud Object Storage (not only the last backup)

    Ability to Offload/Copy ALL VSNAP DATA to Cloud Object Storage (not only the last backup)
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Requesting export and import of metadata ability to second Spectrum Discover instance.

    Requesting a method of exporting the metadata database out of Spectrum Discover to a second Spectrum Discover server. This is of interest when there is a desire to share select parts of the metadata via a Spectrum Discover system without connectiv...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

    DBMEMPERCENT Parameter do not allow value smaller 10

    Parameter DBMEMPERCENT do not allow value smaller than 10. On a AIX System with a lot of Memory are 10% as minimum for DBMEMPERCENT for small TSM Instances too many.
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Customisation of reports - possibility to add a customer logo

    We would like to have the possibility to add a customer logo to the report mails and to change the format of the output from the SQL queries.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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