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Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs)

Update the default settings for DCOPYT, TIMEOUT, PFRLOCO and DELEXP

With the new TS7700 3948, we are using the new 10GB Grid links. When there is an network issue, the first thing support states is to update the default settings for DCOPYT and TIMEOUT values from manufacturing.
about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Planned for future release

3-site support for low-bandwidth links to DR system with automatic mode switching

Since 8.7.1 we offer a 3-site HA+DR solution, but it requires a high bandwidth link to the DR system. Most customers are asking for a 3 site solution with a low-bandwidth link to the third site. Standard PB Replication offers an automatic mode swi...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

Password Length in TS7700

I would like to propose an idea to increase the length of the password for the TS7700 user profiles to more than 25 characters as it would help us to keep the security to a maximum. Also, we would like to include the special characters in the pass...
about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Planned for future release

Support Cohesity Data Protect as a backup source in DRS

DRS currently support Defender Data Protect as a backup source in DRS and it should also support Cohesity Data Protect to broaden the scope of the solution.
about 2 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) Planned for future release

Files with only ctime changes treated as unchanged by Storage Protect, creating a mismatch in mmbackup’s summary. Adding the unchanged count into Storage Protect and mmbackup’s comparison prevent “skipped files” messages.

mmbackup builds its candidates files if there is just change in ctime. However, some files may have a modified ctime even when no metadata or data changes have actually occurred.For such files, if the IBM Storage Protect server already has the lat...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) Planned for future release

SnapDiff-Support for ONTAP 9.18

Could you please add Snapdiff support for ONTAP version 9.17 and 9.18? https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/154613
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) Planned for future release

Enhance Scale ansible toolkit to deploy zimonGrafana Bridge

Eliminate manual effort to add zimonGrafana Bridge
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Planned for future release

Storage Insights Global Mirror Average RPO Metric Request

It would provide great value if Storage Insights could capture Consistency Group detail in the “Copy Data” section from the hardware and use that data to provide an Average RPO value by SYSPLEX or Consistency Group. Further, having the ability to ...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Planned for future release

Enhance the "Storage system performance monitor status" error message by adding potential causes and recommendations

Today, an error (critical) is raised for "Storage system performance monitor status" without explanations or details. It is difficult for the users to understand the cause, the impact and the possible resolution related to this error. Many other e...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Planned for future release

Request to support Spectrum Control on OLVM guest VM

As many customer looking forward from OLVM solution , Request to support Spectrum Control on OLVM guest VM was discussed. This includes support for setting up the Spectrum Control application and also the data migration from VMWare based VM to OLV...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Planned for future release

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