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Enhanced CSM Notification with priority and persistence functionality

Adding the ability to make an alert persistent by selection would allow for some level of prioritization for critical type alerts versus non critical or informational type alerts. Currently the alerts are one shot. The alerts are not redriven at a...
4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Improve the Logical Path Change alert to be more specific.

Currently, when a connection is temporarily dropped, we receive an email alert (like the one shown below) to notify us that a path has gone down. In the DS8K log, we can see when the path goes down, & when comes back up, but the alerts show th...
13 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Session status failed -99 received before schedule duration not ended

Hello, Description: Please be informed that when some SP client is reboot (Because OS patching) during the backup, SP server report event "failed -99". 6/12/24, 22:23:34 ANR0480W Session 2335563 for node [Node_name] (Linux x86-64) terminated - con...
13 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Display of Servers --> Maintenance tasks history improvement

Tasks which run into the next day are shown in the history as running and not finished. The history seems to only check the job in one day. It should check the process id for the finished or aborted status. Also it would be helpful to see the dura...
13 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Improve zOS host IP connection loss detection and failover behavior

There have been incidents in the field showing the current design of CSM z/OS host IP connection loss detection and failover to redundant active host connection is significantly delayed to 15-20 minutes. This may happen especially when the connect...
11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Allow data-lock cloud containers to be reclaimed

I would like to have the feature "Reclaim Containers" available when using datalock stgpools. Looking at my SPOC console, I will have 263.3TB of data that could be reclaimed from my cloud storage pool. Since this is not supported because I'm using...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add more Debug Tools in DS8xxx to implement Data At Rest

When trying to implement Data At Rest encryption, we got several problems to establish communication with the key servers. On DS8xxx side (which is the client in the relation), messages for debugging are not really explicit. On Key Server side, no...
9 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

CNSA Support for Per-PV Encryption

Add support for Scale CNSA to provide per-PV encryption allowing for each PV to use its own encryption key from GKLM or HashiCorp Vault. This would be configured as part of the encryption config CR for the PVC. Allow for each fileset associated wi...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Two-person Integrity for Safeguarded Tape in the RestAPI

Because of our Safeguarded Tape implementation we see many gaps in the security of the current ts4500-java-cli.  As stated with dev the goal is to implement all the security requirements on Rest API.  These changes include adding the ability prote...
about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Future consideration
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Provide Support for Tiering to Tape for Spectrum Protect Plus Data

Spectrum Protect does not allow Data from Spectrum Protect Plus getting tiered from Container Pool to Tape, at current only Tiering to a Cloud Pool, but only to cloud storage classes that support the rapid recall of data.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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