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allow FCM to more granularly control message output

We need the ability to suppress the message IWNRF015I when needed.The PDEBUG variable value currently has non effect on the setting of "show_dups" variable and this leads to hundreds of unwanted messages on the screen during the SEL-SOURCE and the...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

S3 Interface to SPP

The IT industry gets faster and faster and new tools get quicker implemented and all of them normally have a Restful API you can use to communicate with the new applications I have fully understanding that IBM can't support all new applications an...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Add ability to restore drives over original location

Customer would like to have the option to restore a drive directly over the original drive. Currently the only option is to restore the drive and have it mounted along side the original drive.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Uptime command

a "uptime" command that shows system uptime - perhaps lssystemuptime, if possible with several options to show uptime for nodes / drives / ports and other components
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Exclude VMs from Sources Protected number.

If I tag a VM with something like ‘no_backup' or just don't include it in an SLA it is still counted in the total number of VMs protected. There are some VMs (desktops, Citrix, Web, etc) where you may have a single configuration server and then ma...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Secondary control for Adminstraive schedule jobs

This is a basic request. When a administrator leaves the company or change of project, per process the respective admin ID should be deleted from Spectrum Protect ( remove admin ). However the "remove admin" command just process the deletion reque...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

DS8K Storage connection to CSM via HMC mode - static password is Audit exposure

Currently to add a DS8K using HMC connection in CSM, we use a separate ID (admin level) created for this which has static password. We cannot use direct connection. This is an audit risk where we cannot have static passwords. Can an alternate proc...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Missing time stamp

It seems obvious to us that it would be useful to know when the scanning of a Qtree has ended. The only existing keys to date are NameStatusMessageScan_recordsIndexed_recordsPhaseTotal_phases The endpoint we are looking at is sd connmgr/v1/scan/QT...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

BVIR Audit volumes should ignore volume copies 'in flight'

We utilize the BVIR 'COPY AUDIT' function to identify volumes that are missing copies in some or all of the clusters in a grid. As an example of this use we run a COPY AUDIT with the EXCLUDE parameter to specify a cluster that is being removed fro...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Setting the Overview by Server on the Operations Center

Having on the Overview page of the Operations Center the possibility to filter the information by server.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

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