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cert_distribute.sh should allow customers to input path to dsmcert.kdb file

In the current cert_distribute.sh implementations as level 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 it is not possible to specify the path to the dsmcert.kdb file. The cert_distribute.sh script has a logic searching for the dsmcert.kdb file (function getWindowsCertKDBPa...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Sync and Async DR for External/Remote Scale (Global Data Platform)

This feature request is to add sync(metro) and async(regional) DR support for Fusion software with remote scale (global data platform) storage.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

TSM4VE lack support for multiple vCenters, in an intuitive, easy and manageable way.

TSM4VE seems to lack support for multiple vCenters, in an intuitive, easy and manageable way. Competitive software, like Quest (formerly VizionCore) vRanger Pro and Veeam Backup & Replication does have stated support for multiple vCenters. It ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 8 Not under consideration

RMAN plugin required

We are changing our environment to separate failure domains across data center. To be safe but nearly synchronous our Oracle database will be (nearly) synchronized by Oracle dataguard based on Oracle ExaCC.To continue the backup solution with the ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Report Spectrum Scale Event if FD hard Limit of Ganesha server is above the threshold.

Ganesha NFS server has a limit of max. open files, which is calculated by 80% of the maxFilesToCache parameter. If Ganesha Server is reaching this limit, Ganesha NFS server will stop working and all NFS clients will loose access to data. In curren...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

cert_distribute.sh script should allow customized new client cert file names

In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 is using random file names for the newly created client cert (crt) file. For customer environments with multiple, maybe hundreds of Storage Protect ser...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

TS7700 improve cloude connection on dedicated NIC

Currently to implement Cloud connection from FS7700 to any cloud provider the same NIC used for grid replication is used. To improve performances it is helpful to have a dedicated connectivity with additional NIC within VED
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Provide more details for Mail alert notifications for messages such as, IWNR1963W One or more logical paths between storage systems have entered an error state or have been removed.

These alert notifications did not have any information regarding what paths and for which storage subsystems were affected during the path loss. When the CSM console logs were checked there were also no messages for this event and all paths were g...
12 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Update device password through the REST API

Per Security policy the passwords on our Brocade switches need to be changed every 90 days. With more than 200 Switches in the environment, its not feasible to change the password through an User Interface, whereby we have automated the password c...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Node replication based on managementclass or storagepool

Currently node replication can only be issued on a node/filespace basis and backup/archive data. A big global bank has the requirement to replicate all data cross country which are older than 5 years. The data can't be distinguished by filespace o...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

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