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This applies to Spectrum CDM: Treeview of copies

Why don't you add a graphical view of the copies ? It is not easy manage the copies without having a global view of source disks and related copies. Something similar to the attached picture or by exploring a treeview
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Backup on AIX nodes managed by PowerHA

The High Availability configuration of Power AIX systems is made up of two or more real nodes to which volumes and IP addresses are associated and then managed by PowerHA. In this configuration there are therefore at least three types of volumes:...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Full Copy

By default backup jobs create the first copy as a full copy on thin volumes. Being a full copy, the 80% threshold set as a warning value is always exceeded, generating emails and alarm events. Is it possible to set by default the value to 0 (disab...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Massive initial load

During the system configuration phase, it would be useful to be able to do the massive import of providers and identities (whether they are passwords or keyfiles). This would drastically reduce time spent to setup the environment.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Actions on multiple selected object

If we have to hold/release several jobs we have to do it on each single job. Selecting all the jobs the only available action is "Delete", which is the most dangerous option. I think it can be very helpful for the day by day activity to enable al...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

SPP: Implement link feature for jobs

Currently SPP only offers a job scheduling by time. To leverage the backup (and replication) window at a maximum, it would be great to have a "link feature" for jobs.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

vSnap Failover Functionality

Currently, vSnap servers do not have integrated failover functionality. This means if a vSnap is not available, and a backup runs pointing to this vSnap, backup will fail. Automatic failover should happen if a vSnap is not available. Backup then s...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Drive reporting for SI

IBM sometimes releases FLASHes for drive firmware issues. Although the Advisor should catch this, there isn't a simple way to generate reports for all drives known to SI. The only method for doing this appears to be to create a drive report for ea...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

Provide more details for Mail alert notifications for messages such as, IWNR1963W One or more logical paths between storage systems have entered an error state or have been removed.

These alert notifications did not have any information regarding what paths and for which storage subsystems were affected during the path loss. When the CSM console logs were checked there were also no messages for this event and all paths were g...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Introduce Data mobility - Ability to move data from 1 vSnap server to another

Introduce Data mobility i.e. the ability to move data from 1 vSnap server to another.This is so data can be easily managed and vSnap servers retired and added in an easier fashion
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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