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    Need web client support in IBM Spectrum Protect V8.1.2 or later server.

    Web client is extensively used in our environment ( TSM 8.1.1). To fix bugs that are impacting user jobs, TSM will be upgraded to V8.1.3 in the near future.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 9 Not under consideration

    Support Scale Client running on VMware ESXi 8.x

    According to the support page, VMware ESX 7.x is supoorted but not ESXi8.x . Table 72. VMware support matrix on VM guest https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html#virtual also please provide GDS(GPUDirect Storage ) support informatio...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Adding multipath support for FC backup

    One of our customers has Cohesity cluster (12 nodes - Dell PowerEdge 760XL). Each server has 1 HBA (32Gb) with 2 ports and it`s connected to 2 Cisco switches (according to Cohesity recommendations). The problem is all my 12 nodes working through 1...
    10 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Improvement of SP command 'q job'

    Hello IBM Here is my idea: It will be useful to be able to improve the command 'q job' such that it is possible to use the stgrule name as parameter, to just see the jobs for that particular stgrule. We are using many different stgrules, and today...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Migrate VM's to new SLA's without taking new full backups

    Customers want the ability to migrate VM's to new SLA's without taking new full backups. This is due to when customers want to split VMs up already in existing SLAs currently this needs a full backup to be re-run and therefore more space needed in...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add monitoring and notification events for execution of the GUI snapshot scheduler

    Currently only the mmcrsnapshot command is monitored and resulting in events for failure to complete.But there have been occasions where the GUI scheduler failed to even initiate the snapshot process.This failure is completely silent, not causing ...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Handle return code of dsmrecall command properly

    This could be useful for those who come from Spectrum Archive. In Spectrum Archive the "eeadm recall" command returns 0 (success) not only if a list of migrated files is passed, but also for premigrated and resident files (it simplly skips P and R...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Disable attempts to cleanup IBM Flash array snapshots after Devender SAN backup/restore

    When the current version of Defender runs a backup or recovery operation for a SAN source, a snapshot will be created of the configured storage, the backup/recovery operation completed and then a cleanup of the snapshot is attempted. Normally this...
    3 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

    The VTS TS7700 should return other reason UNknown in TVILCAT when the VTS is in write protect mode due to a DR.

    When CBRXLCS macro want to change a category, i receive UN on LIBRARY MANAGER CATEGORY CONSTANTS FOR TVILCAT from CBRTVI macro.The VTS TS7700 return UN because the VTS is in write protect mode due to a DR and because the category DEVSUPxx is not e...
    3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    Increment the options of Send at the Report value. Increase intervals.

    Today, the Operation Center has two options to generate the report: Everyday or Weekly. The ideia, is to have more options, frequency and intervals to generate this report. In the understanding, the Operation Center, doesn't use the Spectrum Prote...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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