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audit container markdamaged needs to update inventory objects as damaged

Any process that marks extents damaged should queue a process to mark those objects damaged which rely on the extents. AUDIT CONTAINER ACTION=MARKDAMAGED only marks extents damaged, so inventory objects stay not-damaged. Even later, if they are ac...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

REPLICATE NODE * DOMAIN=OFFSITE_*

Ability to replicate all nodes in one or more policy domains. Presently, only by node_name, or by nodegroup. There is no way to automatically update a nodegroup membership list.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

DEFINE STGRULE with directory container target

DEFINE STGRULE needs to allow directory containers as target pools, not just cloud pools.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Improve CSMCLI framework to simplify scripting

Currently the CSMCLI framework has some weird and inconsistent behavior how error messages and return codes are being returned to the caller. This makes customized scripting difficult because for each scripting platform a comprehensive CSMCLI wrap...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Add command ts4500cli.jar like 'saveMountHistory'

We need to keep track of tapes and their usage. Connecting to the tapelibrary every hour to download mount history is not a practical solution. This can be automated if the cli has a command like saveMountHistory where the last XXX mounts (or mayb...
about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists

Include database instance name in SPP report

On Microsoft SQL servers we have multiple databases running on multiple instances. It would be helpful in the SPP database report to indicate which instance on an MSSQL server the backup was for.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Encrypt data on DS8000<->DS8000 Fibre-Channel Remote Copy Links

Encryption of IBMZ<->DS8000 (via FICON FEx16SA and/or FEx32S) is possible. Fibre Channel Endpoint Security provides in-flight protection for all data over FICON and Fibre Channel (FCP) links. But data traffic DS8000<->DS8000 via Fibre...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Offer options for excluding the accumulation of some messages related to Safeguarded Copies taken off the GM Secondary in the DSGUI Events

I currently have no visibility on events that occurred more than 3 hours ago on my primary site DS8950F because of a flood of informative " Remote Relationship State Changed" caused by the CGPAUSE needed for the SGC process taking place at seconda...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Externally connect to Management switch to remote support HCI

A customer asks to have the chance to externally connect to the internal switches of Spectum Fusion HCI to remote support the appliance in case Red Hat OCP doesn’t work because two master nodes failed or an administrator blocked the Red Hat OCP ma...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

Redesign DELETE FILESPACE for reduced log pinning and active log utilization

DELETE FILESPACE pins the DB2 active log st the start, and considers the entire deletion one transaction. This is not how ingested data is handled. Because of this disparity, it is possible to receive a large object, such as an NDMP backup, which ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

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