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Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs)

Reconnect message in the console to match the disconnect message

Currently, CSM seems to only show a message when it is disconnected from a DS8K storage system but not when it subsequently reconnects. IWNH1044E Nov 5, 2025, 9:57:30 PM The Replication Manager is disconnected from a cluster for the hardware devic...
2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Automated ODD generation in CSM, along with periodic cleanup based on a retention policy to prevent storage overrun

Background: I recently met with the Storage Infrastructure Head of a large Indian bank. During the discussion, the customer specifically asked whether DS8000 supports automatic ODD generation based on predefined thresholds or triggers at the time ...
2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Safeguarded Snapshots in IBM Copy Services Manager for SV Volume Groups replicated via Policy‑Based High Availability

Please add native support in IBM Copy Services Manager to create safeguarded snapshots for Storage Virtualize Volume Groups replicated via Policy‑Based High Availability. Thank you for considering this enhancement! Virgil Balan Storage Administrat...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Add Filter to the Role Pair Panel

When working on larger CSM configurations with large number of copysets (10,000+), it is difficult to find specific volumes when looking in the Role Pair Details page. It would be very useful to have a Filter box to very quickly find certain volum...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

IP Quorum for PBHA Rescan Automatic

IBM L3 told me this: When the application (IP Quorum) starts, it uses a configuration file that includes the management IPs of both systems but only the service IPs for the system where the app was created. If the app cannot contact the management...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

S3 connectivity from backup&archive solutions to Diamondback

We today face solutions like Rubrik, Veeam, Hammerspace and Cloudian where Diamondback could be a modern and efficient way to keep data longterm like used in Storage Protect.
3 months ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library Delivered

Display actions for a scheduled task

To investigate what is done by a scheduled task, i need to modify this task. For me it should be great to have an action button to display actions for a scheduled task without tthe need to select the modify action for displaying actions. Also if i...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

SnapDiff-Support for up-to-date ONTAP versions

Could you please add Snapdiff support for up2date ONTAP versions? BA-Client 8.1.27 is supported until ONTAP version 9.14. We need support vor ONTAP 9.16. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/154613

TDP support for Exchange SE

Latest Version TDP 8.1.21 only supports up to Exchange 2016/2019, which is going end-of-life 14. Oct 2025.
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail Delivered

Storwize host creation should allow delimited WWPNs for input

Storwize should allow for the use of delimited wwpns (eg c0:00:...., c0-00-....) in host creation dialogues and mkhost commands. The network view allows for viewing the wwpns in several formats with or without delimiters, but input requires the us...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered