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Ability to create a cascade of clones that are independent from each other

If a database was cloned with FlashCopy Manager and this clone (D1) serves as source for another clone (D2) it is currently not possible to refresh D1 without deleting D2. For some scenarios this restriction has technical reasons. But by using ful...
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Planned for future release

Virgina Tech: Allow/deny lists for APIs. IBM COS in our installation lives on a campus network with thousands of untrusted users. Narrowing the scope of networks that can access the manager and data APIs would be helpful in keeping the threat posed by untrusted users accessing an API to a minimum.

Allowing creation of allow/deny lists for access to the manager API and data API, in addition to the included controls on IPs allowed to access vaults, and our own two factor solution for authenticating users would be helpful.
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Virginia Tech: Leveraging the built in rsyslog daemon to forward logs is a preferable path for many users (including us!) to avoid having to deploy an external agent. Making sure all COS internal applications log through rsyslog, instead of their own loggers like log4j or other libraries, would be helpful.

It would also be helpful if the COS syslog forwarding options included rsyslog hooks to allow forwarding all logs via insertion of a rule such as "*.* @@customer.log.host"
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Virginia Tech: The external agent API endpoint consumes a customer provided tarball, unpacks it and then launches a process using the scripts in the tarball. The tarball is unpacked with whatever file ownership options were passed to tar during its creation. For some applications, this causes problems as the scripts are run as root, but the file ownership is still based on the tar file inputs. The request is to unpack the tarball with customer selectable UGO permissions.

Unpacking the tarball with the appropriate tar flags to ignore the ownership and substitute root or updating the file agent documentation to request the customer producing the tarball use the --owner=root and --group=root options may help customer...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Currently the COS manager application enforces LDAP DNs in strict accordance with the X.500 spec of allowing only OID, C | O | OU | CN as part of the DN. It would aid LDAP integrations if this requirement was relaxed to allow any valid searchable attributes to be part of the DN.

This organization identifies groups by their UUGID, rather than canonical name and relaxing this restriction would allow customers to leverage groups that don't have a traditional X.500 strict DN. I believe this is an X.500 restriction and not nec...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

TPC-R integration with VMware SRA for SRM

I'm submitting on behalf of a customer who's using TPC-R to manage replication between multiple Storwize/SVC systems and supporting IBM i, AIX, Windows and VMware hosts. For VMware, they're using Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to automate failover. W...
over 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Self cooling racks

We run into instances where the DC does not have adequate cooling. We can provide the customer with option of self cooling racks, such as - https://www.netrackindia.com/blog/self-contained-racks-with-cooling/ We ship the stacked racks to the custo...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface Driver compatibility rhel 7.4

My environment is as follows：gpfs version：Spectrum_Scale_Data_Access-5.1.0.2-x86_64-Linux-installCSI version：IBM Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface Driver 2.1.0Kubernetes version ：1.19.3 https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_C...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Option to display session and process numbers without commas

Displaying sessions (q sess) or processes (q pro) without commas will allow an administrator to cut/paste session/process numbers into other commands (can sess xxxxx) quickly and accurately . this will eliminate the need to display and manually in...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Windows 10 support

Please let us know when there is a TSM Windows client available to support Windows 10 operating system.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

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