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Add SMTP protocol for event

For information security reasons, some companies are unable to connect out the systems to report issues and events. Most IBM Storage and Mainframe systems have an SMTP protocol for sending e-mail alerts but not in TS77700. Can you add this option ?
almost 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Password rules should not apply to ID'S with no GUI access

We have an automation ID that does not have GUI access, but we want to implement password rules. Currently the version of 6.3.12 only provides an all or nothing feature for password rules. I would suggest excluding automation ID'S from password va...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Submitted

Add Service-Now integration to Storage Insights

For certain alerts, I don't want it to sent an email. I want it to open a ticket. I want to be able to configure various Service Now fields to allow the severity and group to be assign, along with other fields An example: caller: Storage Insights ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 3

Change mail-function for OC and reports, email support for user/password

Open relay mailserver is not a common way anymore inside organisations to handle mail. I need support (new feature / way to handle mail) for operation center for reports which supports user/password and connections to non open relay mailservers al...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale - automatic audit log files rotation

The File Audit Logging functionality from Spectrum Scale captures file operations on a file system and logs them to a retention enabled fileset.Depending on the number of operations at the Spectrum Scale file system, it can generate lots of audit ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

SPPlus : restore VM to my cloud provider

In Spectrum Protect plus , it would be interesting to have the ability to restore a VM to a cloud provider. As we can restore to alternate location today, alternate location could be then IBM Cloud or Amazon or Azure so the VM is being restored an...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SQL Recovery Model change is not properly handled

ISPP doesn't handle changes of the SQL recovery model from "full" to "simple" as it would be suitable for a enterprise product.When a DB with Log Backup enabled is changed to simple recovery model, there will be warnings that the log backup is fai...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Retrules for databases and Exchange filespaces

Ability to create long term / ad-hoc achives from already backed-up data is critical to our customers. We can not afford of re-reading the same data under different nodename to store it under different retention policy. There is a need for retenti...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Support of HyperV VM tags to select resources to backup

Ability to select the resources to backup based on VM tags in a HyperV environment (same functionality as for VMware)
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Error handling for failed node replication - ANR1893E and ANR3824W

Since ISP 8.1.14 we always see this error messages in the log - and monitoring system - for node replication, because some files are skipped. The reason for the skipped files is, that database log backups always occur during the replication. This ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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