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Storage Protect Family

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Make the Operations Center Server Activity display user-configurable

Customer would like to see the Operations Center Server Details...Summary tab "Activity over 24 Hours" be more configurable. Specifically, it would be helpful the Activity period could be lengthened and the mouse hover show the actual date and time.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

add support for PowerHA AIX cluster configuration for File system backup and restore

DCU (Customer) did a CDM snapshot across the 2 AIX servers. Then a situation came up where they had a need to do a restore and it failed with the exception “com.catalogic.ecx.ibmsvcprovider.exception.IBMSVCExecCommandException: CMMVC9071E: Cannot ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

SCDM should not do a df on every datafile during an Oracle Backup

During an Oracle Backup job, the agent code does a df on every single datafile to see what filesystem it resides on to determine which luns to snapshot. On a large database with many datafiles (1000s) this takes a long time. It would be much more ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

BA client for debian update startscript

In Debian Linux the rc.dsmcad startscript does not work for tw reassons:1)In Debian Linux default runlevel per default is 2 (can be between 2 and 5.) the dsmcad start sript rc.dsmcad is not setup to start on runlevel 2cat rc.dsmcad#!/bin/sh## (C) ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Provide ISP Client Management Services also for Linux on Power LE

We use ISP CMS to rollout ISP Client configuration on our ISS Cluster systems. Now, besides x86 based ISS Clusters, we got our first IBM POWER LE based cluster and recognised that IBM does not ship ISP CMS for POWER LE. But we need CMS also on the...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Individual Creation of SLA/User/Identity (tenant based account)

Dear IBM,Our customer Requires Ability to create his own SLA policies and assign VM's/DB's/Filesystems in it. Ability to create his own users and assign him role of limited capabilityAbility to create his own identities (for inventory of VM's most...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP File Restore GUI/Wizard

The steps for the VM FileRestore are not clear and simple enough according to the client.In a restore situation (always associated with stress), the customer has to know or consider too many things in order to perform the file restore. For example...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Move backups between nodes (datamovers)

Moving data from a datamover node to a datacenter node is not possible when it is mis-stored. Currently, with container pools, the only option is to delete those backups, or manually track them separately.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

REPLTCPSERVERADDRESS override

baclient and API need to allow persistent override of REPLTCPSERVERADDRESS or similar functionality.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Future consideration

SPP Server: view / check / download certificates

Hallo all As you know, there is no option to check / view certificate, e.g., for vSnap directly from SPP server. Check certificate might be required when non-default certs are in place. Under system configuration -> keys and certificates, there...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration