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Add data collector support for Linux operating systems on IBM Power® systems (PPC64, Big Endian).

Add data collector support for Linux operating systems on IBM Power® systems (PPC64, Big Endian).
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 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.
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 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 ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

GUI should indicate if TS7700 is in 'skip' mode

We had a long VTS outage during which time errors were not being reported due to the VTS being in 'skip' mode. We would like some visible notification of the VTS being in 'skip' mode or health status screen that would show all the current componen...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 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 ...
over 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...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM SPP vSnap availability in AWS EU (Stockholm) Region

IBM SPP vSnap is now available in AWS marketplace for deployment but it doesn't list AWS EU (Stockholm) Region yet.It is important to have vSnap in this region for adaption to SPP and not choosing other solution.Due to workload in AWS EU (Stockhol...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP 3.rd recovery

Customer wants a third site for recovery. They are planning for a 3rd site recovery site to start up the workload from backup. Today we can recover SPP catalog from vsnaps. And the vsnaps can store data as archive to OSSM/S3/SP (this will act as s...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

decommission of a node or vm requires system level privilege

When decommissioning a node or VM – even if the user is the node owner they cannot decommission it. To decommission anything you have to have system level privileges. Yes, this is an issue as we have to provide elevated permissions to contractors ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Offer alerting creation based on variation of the metric

In the same way that this is offered today with "Storage System , capacity, total compression, changes ", any other attribute (from other cateogries and componenent) should allow to specifc a change % value as trigger of the alerting
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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