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    Extension of the Table "Replicationview" by the columns batchesQ and batchesD

    Hello, the command "show replication" shows the number of "batchesQ" and "batchesD".Is it planned to implement the number of "batchesQ" and "batchesD" in the table REPLICATIONVIEW?Currently I can't find any columns in this table regarding this. En...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

    Understanding of spectrum Discover tables

    As part of the use of CP4D it is important for Airbus to know the exact use of each of the tables that we could or should 'integrate' or not into CP4D/Cognos for example. This request aims to identify, for example, tables presenting data that has ...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

    SPP: way to browse files for restore

    Give a way to pull up an index of files that were backed up for a specific VM on a specific day. Basically copy pulling up a point in time restore browser that is in the normal SP client.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    TSM4VE Cloud Service Provider Mode

    Because of all ransomware attacks we see more transformations from other backup vendors back to IBM Storage Protect for VE, but the issue with TSM4VE is that it demanding a System Account in the Storage Protect Server to be able to work, we have d...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Better Information for Storage Rule

    If we run any Storage rule like Replication or Tiering of data between pools and we see it failed of some reasons. A natural way to investigate a issue is to run the same command manually using wait=yes and in that way get more information, but ve...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

    Custom certificate for TSM-VE for VMware plugin

    I would like to get an interface or at least a procedure (commands) to replace the builtin autogenerated certificate push in TSM-VE plugin for VMware. Actually, we need to manually install this autogenerated certificate on each new machine that co...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    SPP during Resouce Registration have option to sign to resource group

    During customer Meeting, it was asked if during registration of resource they could have the ability to assign resource to a resource group
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    If there is a broken or offline canister, make it easier for the offline canister to rejoin the good canister after the offline canister is replaced

    Customer had a canister that was replaced. The new canister would not boot. Support had to work with the admin to run the chbootdrive command to update the serial number to the new canister to get things fully working. The request is for an enhanc...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Support LTFS 2.5 Function incremental Index

    To enhance the migration Performance and reducing the overhead on update the index partition on tape the function incremental index should be implemented.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

    TSM FileClient for high resolution displays

    We use Lenovo X1 Notebooks with high resolution displays. The TSM Fileclient on the Notebooks with Windows 10 is tiny. Other application fit or could scale to the resolution.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

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