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Support for EMC PowerMax storage systems

Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series storage systems.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

SPP Server: view / check / download certificates

Hallo all As you know, there is no option to check / view certificate, e.g., for vSnap directly from SPP server. Check certificate might be required when non-default certs are in place. Under system configuration -> keys and certificates, there...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Make the Operations Center Server Activity display user-configurable

Customer would like to see the Operations Center Server Details...Summary tab "Activity over 24 Hours" be more configurable. Specifically, it would be helpful the Activity period could be lengthened and the mouse hover show the actual date and time.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

SCDM - RFE title Granular LDAP queries than trying to scan in the entire AD Domain.

Storage Copy Data Management - We currently cannot handle scale for the amount of LDAP groups that are being attempted to be loaded for a case. Based on the error displaying an "out of memory" error message, it appears that the issue is related to...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Individual Creation of SLA/User/Identity (tenant based account)

Dear IBM,Our customer Requires Ability to create his own SLA policies and assign VM's/DB's/Filesystems in it. Ability to create his own users and assign him role of limited capabilityAbility to create his own identities (for inventory of VM's most...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backup history for specified date frame

Hallo all To get information about VM or application backup history, you should use /ngp/analytics/vmbackuphistory or /ngp/analytics/dbbackuphistory rest-api endpoints. It generally works... if you have small amount of VM's and your environment is...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Customers running SI ( free ) should be notified when probe or performance collections fail

When a probe or performance collection fails for a customer running SI free we should send an email or some alert notification to the user. Today they only alerting is in SI Pro and if the customer is running SI free it's not an option.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

GPFS supports the dirsync mount option

Our bussinuss architure is like FuseClient --> FileServer(GPFS NativeClient)-->GPFS. IBM GPFS does not support dirsync mount option in Linux. GPFS Native Client will save the dir meta changes(create/mknod/link/unlink/rename...) in cache. The...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future 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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

BA client for debian update startscript

In Debian Linux the rc.dsmcad startscript does not work for tw reassons:1)In Debian Linux default runlevel per default is 2 (can be between 2 and 5.) the dsmcad start sript rc.dsmcad is not setup to start on runlevel 2cat rc.dsmcad#!/bin/sh## (C) ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

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