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Alter SGC volume threshold percentage via DSCLI

Currently 85% is the default set in IBM DS8k for SGC volumes threshold. To modify this percentage and to get alerting much earlier, this can be done only by IBM DS8K support team by modifying structure csSfgContNotifThreshold. If the option is ava...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Proxy server support for connecting to AWS S3 (cloud container storage pool)

Support for proxy connections when defining cloud storage pools in Spectrum protect server
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

granular user roles for CSM

We need a possibility to create custom roles in CSM.Within these roles we would like to define what tasks are available for the users.For instant a user who can resync the HA relationship after an IPL. Or a user who can trigger a hyperswap and Sta...
about 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Filter for Backup, Replication and Copy in GUI

Under Job History in the SPP GUI it would be helpful to be able to filter by job job type. Example: Backup, Replication or Copy. This would make it much easier to search for specific jobs.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enabling the NVMe over TCP/IP with 5G network connectivity

1- Adding Advanced functionalities with easy programming for storage operations. 2- Enabling Fast, Standard, Reliable and Remote Storage Area Networking.
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Future consideration

SI should flag/alert when firmware or microcode level is End Of Support

I would like to see (Maybe in Insights Advisor) if the Storage Firmware or Software is End Of Support. On IBM SVC family for example.. SVC hardware node may not be end of support, but it’s running a firmware code stream that IS end of support. Thi...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Schedule policy/job to execute every 4th saturday of the month

Policy can be set to start on the day of the month (1st, 2nd,...) and can be set to start at Saturday but repeat it every 4 weeks, because some months have 5 weeks it's not acceptable. We need it to be set(because of load) every 4th saturday of th...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Broadcast a warning message when the active logical volumes are near the logical volume license

In the current design, there is no alert setting that will broadcast a warning message when the active logical volumes managed is near the logical volume license. Many customers rely on automation to get an alert from any subsystem in their enviro...
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Support for CSM assimilating correctly a Safeguarded Copy session that has a recovery relationship onto an new CSM server

CSM should be able to assimilate correctly a complete Safeguarded Copy session that has a recovery relationship established and is in "Target Available state onto a new from scratch installed CSM server. Currently CSM is only able to assimilate th...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

List of expired logical volumes

When an expire hold is set on the TS77, the System deletes every hour an amount of tapes. We'd like to know what is deleted or even better, what will be deleted on a certain date. Having this list in zOS, we can compare the Information with the RM...
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration