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    Add confirmation question for restart in Administrative Console - System Management

    If accidently clicking on the "Restart IBM Spectrum Proctect Plus" it will happen instantly. I think it would be better with a confirmation here instead of using "hot" buttons.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    TDMF OPTION to Delay/Retry Quiesce/Swap until Concurrent Copy Completes

    This is a documented restriction in the TDMF for z/OS Installation and Reference manual chapter 5 section 'Extended functions'. however, it sounds as if you would like an ability to elongate the TDMF session until the concurrent copy sessions have...
    almost 11 years ago in TDMF z/OS 4 Not under consideration

    Reload ssl config without restarting server

    Enable reload of ssl/tsl config without restarting the server.
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Dynamic migation of the TSM DB and Log volumes from one OS volume to another.

    We need to migrate the TSM DB and log volume from one Os volume to another dynamically. WE have performed this activity in the previous version of TSM and it worked perfect. Seems like that capability is missing in the newer versions.. For Ex: I u...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Fiserv has standardized on PingID V1.36 as the MFA software of choice for their enterprize platforms and they would like to have IBM certify PingID with FlashSystem.

    Fiserv has standardized on PingID V1.36 as the MFA software of choice for their enterprize platforms and they would like to have IBM certify PingID with FlashSystem Spectrum Virtualize 8.5.4
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Add option to SPP to disable automatic connection to IBM update center.

    There's a long timeout when using the Administrative Console before it is possible to click on "Updates and Hotfix Management" when there's no connection to IBM update center. After this long timeout when it is possible to click and go to the "Upd...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add capability to the dsmc command to set the node name, password and contact information without prompting. Add to dsmcutil?

    It is very hard to trap the prompts from the dsmc command with open registration.Need way to execute the dsmc command and specify the node name, password and contact information to satisfy authentication without prompting. Another way might be wit...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Show warning for mismatching "local fc port mask" upon attempt to add nodes to an existing cluster

    Attempt to add nodes to an existing system failed with the candidate nodes being stuck in "adding" forever. This was caused by the configured "local fc port mask", which restricted the inter-node I/O to certain FC port ids. There was no hint, erro...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    dsmc query backup -detail show all volume IDs

    dsmc query backup xxx -detail only display one volume id, please display all volumes IDs or volume_names used by xxx objects.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    RENAME COLLOCGROUP command requested

    Provide the ability to rename collocation groups with a command similar to RENAME COLLOCGROUP.
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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