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REST API to get performance metrics (including RPO) for volume groups

Need a REST API to get the performance metrics for volume groups that are displayed in Storage Insights. This includes the RPO metrics.
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

IBM Spectrum Archve EE - One failed candidate (e.g. deleted) for migration causes whole migration task fail, space allocated, migration must be repeated

Migration task should finish successfully even any individual file fails (reason of failure could be that user deleted of changed file after start of migration), it helps to save drive time so no new re-migration is needed. If migration fails, spa...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

Change the number of invalid logon attempts from lock the account or the node to a ban/black list of ip address

Starting with IBM Spectrum® Protect 8.1.15, the minimum number of invalid logon attempts that are allowed before a node or administrator account is locked is changed from 0 to 1. The maximum number of invalid logon attempts that are allowed is 10....
12 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

PB- Replication: In certain instances the QA databases are refreshed daily from the Global Mirror targets. With the current process on the SVC you can specify the replication direction for example “svctask startrcconsistgrp -force -primary master 5”. On the new policy based replication it is very easy for someone to accidentally restart the replication in the wrong direction using the command line on the wrong storage device(DR), e.g.if they should issue “chvolumegroupreplication -mode production 5” on the wrong storage device(DR). This will restart replication backwards and overwrite production with old data. The GUI is verifying that via a message, before allowing.

Anyone doing such tasks, can do easily fatal overwrites in the wrong direction when using the CLI. Especially in an Disaster Recovery Situation.A message like you are intending to replicate / sync from X to Y. Are you sure?
12 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Allow IBM Fusion Backup to continue if PVCs disappear during the backup process

In a very volatile machine learning environment, PVCs are created and deleted frequently, controlled by the containerized application when users create or delete projects within the application. Let’s call these PVCs “User Project Volumes”. It hap...
7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Related to SafeGuarded Copy on the DS8000. SGC backup copies CANNOT be deleted. Today, a person with adminstrator rights can still log on and delete off valid SGC backup copies. Customers have been asking for this capability to be removed.

This feature is required to ensure that SGC is totally immutable.
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Functionality already exists

Once a code upgrade begins, we should block Customers DS GUI logins with a "banner" stating code upgrade is in "progress".

Clients, especially new ones who are not familiar with DS8000 tend to get upset when they are attempting to access the DS GUI during a microcode upgrade and find that they cannot. This will alleviate a great deal of frustration and uncertainly for...
11 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Allow MONITOR role to 'view' all (or most) items and configurations in CSM

Currently the MONITOR role in CSM does not allow access to things like port pairing csv or authentication settings and even the scheduled tasks. As a result we always need an ID with ADMINISTRATIVE access. Per our firm's security standards the adm...
26 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Add a dedicated time frame for media verification function

We would like to define a dedicated time frame in the media verification function so that this verification function is not active during daily backups. This will allow you to unassign the tape drives to this verification function and assign them ...
6 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Future consideration

Support copy to Cloud Container Pool using STGRules

It's a very common use case to have one local backup of the data and for cyber resilience another air gaped copy on locked cloud storage. Unfortunately, this is currently not supported by Storage Protect. Please implement "Copy to Cloud Container ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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