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Access of TS7700 Data in Cloud by Open Systems

FedEx has requested the ability to access via open/distributed systems, data they will send from their on-prem TS7700s to the cloud
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Change of srvmon directory to different path instead of instance path

Our instance home directory which is 20 GB in size is getting full as the hidden collection folder in srvmon directory is using up to 15 GB of the space in instance directory before it can get purged.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Allow for bulk add of mmces addresses in node-affinity

We have found that for deployments of 16 or more CES nodes that node-affinity mode is the most predictive and stable, the challenge is in deployment time. In balanced mode all of the addresses can be deployed in 1-2 minutes. With 32 CES nodes runn...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Tickets created with SI should have same info added to the ticket when created by phone home

When an SVC "phones home", the ticket generated includes the following information - Client would like this same information automatically generated when they create a ticket with SI. Today, only the serial number is passed. Client does leverages ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Allow the Repository Server IP hostname/port to be updated

Allow the Repository Server IP hostname/port to be updated in the SPP Gui to cater for infrastructure changes where the SP server IP address has changedand to allow the possiblity to allow the SPP server to be repointed to the failover object agen...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide method to move VMs & associated backups between different data centers

We have a deployment coming up where the VMWare administrators are creating a new data center within the same vCenter and VMs from the existing data centers are going to be moved to the new data center. I opened a PMR to find out if there was a wa...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

Implementation from the authenticated way to send EMails from CSM

At the moment CSM is not ready to use an authenticated way to send Mails. CSM should implement this possibility at their GUI to use an User + password for their mail Notifications.
about 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Enable TLS encryption as default for Mail Notifications

As default, it is not possible to use the Mail Notifications from (e.g.) CSM 6.2.8 to send mails with TLS encryption. If you contact an Exchange Server where sending from E-Mails without encryption is not allowed, you got during SMTP Server setup ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

HDFS support for scanning

Allow Spectrum Discover to scan hdfs data lake environments to identify data candidates for our use cases (AI, governance, data heat).
about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Storage Device hierarchy - Virtualizer vs Storage devices

Spectrum Control must provide a hierarchical view of storage devices to show dependencies between backend devices and storage virtualisers such as Spectrum Virtualise or Scale.Today all are considered Storage devices and presented through a flat v...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

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