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Create customer-viewable "Storage Fusion IBM Service/Support Reference Guide"

The consensus of several IBM Storage Fusion HCI users and IBMers ( including Storage Fusion HCI HW Service Planning) is: A "Storage Fusion HCI / SW Support Reference Guide", similar to the external customer-facing IBM Elastic Storage Server Suppor...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Functionality already exists

SPP File restore selection and Progress

SPP File restore has good feature but selecting restore files is really not easy.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

SPP: NAT connection trough dedicated vLAN

SPP server has configured NAT with additional 3 network IP's. The same vLAN's are configured in the vSNAP server + proxy combo (IBM appliance).During Backup/Restore operation SPP communicate with client with correct IP (different than managment). ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

Expire individual backups in Spectrum Protect Plus

Expire individual host/application backups assigned to SLA policy
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

LDAP - implement nested groups support

Enterprise environments that implement LDAP need to support LDAP nested groups.
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Servermon (Windows) is using cmd to archive servermon files, located in <instance_dir\srvmon

To protect our ISP Server environment on Windows against Ransomware attacks, we are using the program Blocky for TSM from Grau Data. We can whitelist all programs and applications to update the critical files in the filesysems, like db, log and in...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Properly manage Archive Mode flag in TS1150/TS1155 tape drives

The IBM TS1150 and TS1155 Enterprise tape drives has a configuration setting called Archive Mode [1] which controls whether archive mode unthread (also called low tension refresh) should be performed on tape unload. In recent firmwares [2] the def...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

Throttle option for SCSI UNMAP to backend mdisk

Request for Spectrum Virtualize software ability to control the rate of SCSI UNMAP workload sent to backend mdisks. When vdisk remove is executed on non-DRP pool, the rate of UNMAP commands to backend appear unlimited and need to have ability to c...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

CSM Co-existance with lower-level or different level CSM.

2. The ability for CSM software to co-exist with a lower-level or different-level CSM software in a CSM configuration where they are sharing one or the same CSM database.
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

OC License History

OC already has reports from FrontEnd and BackEnd licensing, however many customers would like to be able to track the historical consumption of their licenses, to allow a better forecast of how much they have been using.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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