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    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

    resync backup after loss of the cbt

    The vmware backup mechanism is based on the vmware CBT to make incremental backups. After an esx crash, the cbt is reset and a FULL backup is made (new base backup). a resync backup feature will be helpful this would take a lot of time to resync b...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Log failed commands in auditlog or syslog

    We are increasingly working with applications that "talk" to the SVC (and FlashSystems). In case of problems, we try to find out which commands these applications used.Commands that have failed are not logged, while this can be important informati...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

    Fix o disable "Replace" option in VSS DB Restore

    Tivoli Data Protection for Databases(SQL) has the option to backup and restore either using Legacy or VSS options. Whenever you select Restore you have the hability to select various "Restore Options", among this options is "Replace""Replace" tell...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments - Data Protection for VMware V. 8.1.2.0 - avoid add vsphere comment

    Since TSM/VE 8.1.2.0 backup statistics are stored in vSphere Client column comment. To avoid this the parameter "testflag VMLASTBACKUPSTATUS:"NONE" could be used, but the backup Information must be Manually deleted. It would be friendly when this ...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Allow V7000 monitoring using industry standard protocols

    Allow monitoring of performance data using read-only credentials and industry standard tooling.
    about 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Cancel multiple client sessions

    Having a run to a server with many many client sessions, how can many being canceled by one single command?
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Allow the customers to use SSO / SAML with their domain

    As our company security request, it will be better that we can have the function that support SSO/SAML with our domain to login the IBM Insights.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Documentation for HMC password change

    For security concern, it is needed to change the default password of all the HMC of a ESS storage appliance.I didn't find any documentation to follow for this task. I was able to modify the HMC passwords through the HTTP interfaces. With the IBM s...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    Migration process should skip locked files

    Under certain conditions, the TSM server will try to migrate volumes that are locked by client backup sessionsl and simply wait for the volume to free up. This happens on a long-running (slow) backdup, or when a session does not terminate properly...
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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