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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 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Provide a simple administrative command to show the the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours)

While it is required to size the replication server pairs, the product does not provide a simple administrative command to show the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours). Currently, the only way to get ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Spectrum Protect Plus: Improvement suggestion for the Restore-OpenShift function "Restore to alternate cluster"

System: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Server Spectrum Protect Plus is used to secure the various OpenShift clusters. In the event of a disaster recovery, it is a common scenario that the saved status of the defective cluster has to be transferred to a...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Webclient for 7.1.8 and 8.1.2

please know that in the Healthcare and Hospital environment, the Web Client is very highly used, and extremely important. Your statement that the Web client is not needed because the BA client GUI is available and can be used. However, you fail to...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Operations Center Reports, provide a test button of custom SQL

Today when creating a custom report in Operations Center the interface automatically sends sql select queries to the server to check if the work. This could be done multiple time during the time when you edit the report, that puts a lot of load on...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

EasyTier in multi tier pools - selsction of tiers participating in a single volume

i would like to propose the ability to subselsct the tier level a specific volume is participating in. when having 3 storage tier within one pool, clients would like to priorize some volume e.g. have some volume use flash and enterprise, but other...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under 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 ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Select background colour in GUI

When working with several systems it would be nice to change background colour or banner colour.It would be easier to visually see what system you are working on.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Candidate selection for sparenodes in standard stretched clusters

Add functionality to be able to specify what nodes a spare node is protecting in "standard" topology, either through the use of site_id or manually entered properties on the nodes. Site id's are used when selecting spare node when running "stretch...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

TSM V6: Show Us the Tables, Please

Please expose to the SELECT command in TSM V6 (and later, if any) all of the internal tables that TSM uses, with exceptions for things like passwords and other sensitive information.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered