IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Use a linux web client to do NDMP restores

    There does not appear to be a way to restore a NDMP backup via a linux GUI client. This means that in order to do a restore a windows server needs to be provisioned, maintained and available purely for restoration purposes.
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Change of IBM Spectrum Control Common User after installation

    We would like to have the functionality to change Spectrum Control Common User after the software is installed and running for several years.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

    Database Report

    the SPP does not have a specific report for databases with the total consumed separately from the VMs
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Request for support of 32 bit TDP client on 64 bit operating system.

    Because you cannot install i.e TDP for Domino x32 on x64 OS you are unable to backup IBM products like Quickr for Domino. Quickr requires Domino x32, If you want to install TDP x32 you are unable to install because OS is x64. You cannot use TDP x6...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

    GUI vs. waiters

    GUI thread fork()s mmlsfs ... but when the cluster is hanging anyway .. it does not makes any sense , maybe GUI can be optimized to check cluster state/waiters ... As if a cluster hnags (has waiters) adding more monitoring hanging processes on top...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    SVC to have fail safe code if someone is trying to compress data that is not compressible. Applicable to V7000 too.

    The SVC, and V7000 needs some sort of safety measure for the Realtime Compression feature. If the customer is trying to compress something that is not compressible, then the SVC/V7000 should be able to recognize it as such, stop it's compression e...
    almost 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Additional HMC support connectivity options

    Depending on security requirements, the customer is not allowed to connect DS888'0s HMC to the Internet.For this reason, I request the addition of a function that connects the system of the destination of the RSF and the HMC in the customer data c...
    over 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Add schedule backup end time to Monitoring for TSM

    The monitoring agent for Tivoli Storage Manager should collect information about backup end time for client and also administrative schedules. Currently it is collecting only result and start time. This information is easily collectable in TSM dat...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

    OPCenter server can access the internet through a HTTP proxy

    IBM Ticket : TS007157717 Hello, I would like to contact you beacause I am simply looking for an answer to a question.I'm looking to implement the auto-deploy feature for a client. The OPCenter server can access the internet through a network proxy...
    over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    CSM consistency group data exposure at volume level

    CSM does not report ( at the volume level ) any Global Mirror long data exposure to complete a consistency group.
    over 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

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