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Report visualizer inside Operations Center

The only way to visualize a report output is to send the report by email using the "Send" option. This is not practical when creating/modifying a report and you need to see the result quickly in order to make changes/corrections to the SQL. It wou...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Test ISPP with Linux 8.5

For ISPP server we have currently Linux version of 7.X and Linux team is planning to upgrade to RedHat Linux version 8.5 and they cant go for 8.4 as it has security vulnerability Please advice correct version of ISPP which is compatible with for L...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

tivsm-ba deb package fails to restart service on upgrade

When working on verifying the fix for APAR IT35298 on case TS004574980 we noticed that the deb packages for the client doesn't properly restart the dsmcad service on upgrades. We were told that this wouldn't be fixed, and that the issue should be ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Proxy and vSnap on Power Linux

Require support for Spectrum Protect Plus vSnap server and VADP Proxy on Linux based on Power servers.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Incremental Hyper-V Backup Like TDP for VE (VMware)

Please add the ability to perform incremental backups for Hyper-V using either the standard TSM BA Client or TSM for VE in a similar way as is provided for VMware backups.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Planned for future release

SP SERVER/OP CENTER: FUNCTION TO CONTROL/HANDLE CLIENT FILE BACKUP CONFIGURATION DIRECTLY FROM SERVER

- Develop function to integrate Operations Center with SP Server with the ability to configure and handle the client host backup remotely.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management to leverage existing storage replication relationships

IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management for SAP/HANA environment
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Add VM Backup Success Rate to GUI

The current "Success Rate" percentage shown in the GUI is misleading.It shows the success rate of jobs. Jobs include backup, restore, replication, inventory and maintenance jobs.If 1 job (with 5 VMs) fails and 1 job (with 500 VMs) succeeds, the su...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for VMware vCloud Director

When does IBM expect that Spectrum Protect Plus have support for VMware vCloud Director.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Application Inventory Job Change Report/Alert

An Oracle database that exists on the database server is no longer being found or displayed in SPP. This is not considered a failure, so no reporting is provided. Customer needs an alert or report to see the changes to the inventory job. The parti...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration