IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    OpenStack back-up with Spectrum Protect

    Customer VW (Volkswagen) Financial Services (VWFS) is in charge for managing the cloud solution for the entire VW corporation, which is based on OpenStack.VWFS is a loyal IBM Spectrum Protect customer. VWFS approached us with the request for a bac...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Support Spectrum Virtualize Recovery host mappings via CLI/API

    CSM supports host mapping management for SGC backup recovery via the GUI to simplify actions necessary to validate an SGC backup, for example as part of a Cyber Vault solution. A general recommendation for Cyber Vault solutions is to automate as m...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Session warning status in the event of DS8k CEC failure

    When a DS8k experiences a CEC failure, CSM reports errors on LCUs that are associated with that CEC and changes the session status to Severe (giving the impression to the customer that there is a mirroring problem or scenario that would cause issu...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

    Allow snapdiff backups of NetApp CIFS volumes containing widelinks

    TSM uses NetUseEnum() to determine if a NetApp CIFS share is connected before attempting a snapdiff backup. When run on a NetApp CIFS volume with widelinks, it results in the following error: ANS2831E: Incremental by snapshot difference cannot be ...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    Alert user when number of volumes assigned to a volume group is different than number of volumes assigned to host group

    A situation where an insufficient number of volumes are replicated in a DR scenario could result in a disaster. Alerting to the incorrect number of volumes being replicated could prevent this. The simplest way to determine the "correct" number of ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Options to disable Dual control for few sessions

    We have enabled dual control for our CSM server, but there are some sessions which are managed by API or manual control. In those cases, having dual control makes it little difficult to implement since we need a 2nd ID to approve the activity. Wou...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

    Log backup of SQL system databases

    Log backup of SQL system databases should be supported in Spectrum Protect Plus
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    CSM LDAP authentication with native RACF/SDBM

    CSM is not able to authenticate with IBM Directory Server for z/OS configured with SDBM backend.With SDBM backend a IBM Directory Server is communication with RACF directly. No own database is requered.The native authentication with RACF/SDBM shou...
    about 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    CSM - add 'if then' functionality to a scheduled task

    Client wants a scheduled task to be able to determine the active host and issue commands to the active host
    over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    CDM compatibility with RHEL8 for SAP HANA -

    One of the largest customer in ANZ for SAP HANA on Power is running HANA 2.0 over RHEL 8 and want to use Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) v 2.2.12 As per the current compatibility information
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

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