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    Replication Job shows as "Error" if no data is there to process

    When using the replication of vSnap backup storage data and no "new" backup data is available in the source vSnap, SPP identifies the replication job as "Error" which is not true.In fact, just no new data is available in the source vSnap server. S...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    "Cancel Process all" command in Spectrum protect

    Would be great if "cancel process all" command in TSM/Spectrum Protect is introduced.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    New Synchronize and Swap command related to Active and Standby Servers

    Create a new command that would combine the steps to synchronize a Standby server and then automatically swap the Active and Standby servers once the initialize synchronize completes. For larger environments where server synchronization takes an e...
    7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    New Swap Active/Standby command that completes a Takeover and immediately restores synchronization from the new Active and Standby servers

    In order to swap the Active and Standby servers, current csm functionality requires the following steps: 1. Takeover command issued to the Standby - wait for the Standby (new Active) to complete its startup processing. 2. Set Standby issued to the...
    7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Under review

    Default Lifecycle Policy

    Setting up a default lifecycle policy from the cluster management which would be in effect for every bucket by default unless the bucket owner puts a custom lifecycle policy on the bucket. This would in effect force the users to either set-up thei...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Planned for future release

    SP4C - Enhancement to the SP4C Exchange Online restore tab to match with the Microsoft 365/Outlook user experience

    In the Exchange Online restore tab using Calendar Mode, the SP4C tool currently displays only the "Name" column when viewing user mailbox contents (Inbox, Archive, Calendar, etc.). The client desires an enhanced user experience within the SP4C res...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Under review

    TSM4VE UI Support for mulitple Spectrum Protect server instances

    the current TSM4VE Web UI or plugin does not support the distribution of VM backup data of 1 datacenter to multiple Spectrum Protect instances. Nowadays VM datacenters have reached sizes which require to have more than 1 Spectrum Protect instance ...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Enable selective VMDK based restore for "Production Restore (Disk Replace)"

    Starting with version 10.1.7 it is possible to restore only the VMDK's of a VM without restoring the configuration data of the VM.This restore mode is named "Production Restore (Disk Replace)". This restore mode does a restore of all VMDK's of a V...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    make tags avaiable on the storwize that could be used to add volumes to applications groups in insight

    we are separating volumes on storwize/fs systems. we are putting them in application groups by os, so we can monitor performance. groups are vmware aix ibmi the problem is adding new volumes on the array, does not add them to the application group...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Protocols - NFS rolling update along with Active Directory

    Customer is having NFS being autheticated my MS AD. In this case SMB service needs to be installed and according to documentation, NFS outage is done when upgrading protocol nodes. Customer is requesting non-disruptive NFS protocol nodes upgrade a...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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