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Management Class in Library Request Command LVOL

There is no way to see the management class for a specific volume with the Library Request Command LVOL. You will get a lot of information, but there are no SMS constructs in the output. In the MI you will find it via Volume Details, but there is ...
6 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Planned for future release

Have an API to communicate with Storage Insights

We want to integrate Storage Insights alerts into our monitoring tool. Should be able to communicate with Storage Insights through an API to receive alerts etc. and have them processed by our monitoring tool.
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Not under consideration

excluded VMs in unprotected list

The Policy Overview should have a excluded VM resource in my opinion. Annoying having x number of Unprotected VMs reported every day when it is perfectly ok and should not be reported as an error.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

add ability to create certificate signing request to SP+ interface

The SP+ admin UI allows us to provide a real (non self signed ) certificate but does not provide a way to create a certificate signing request which is necessary to obtain a real certificate. We need a supported way to create CSRs
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) "What's New" Operations Center Feed

Spectrum Protect customers often are unaware when new versions of the solution are released and what relevant new features are added. This often causes issues as the applications and software they are protecting continues to update and requires sp...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TDP for MS SQL FCM GUI Customization

The way information is displayed in the FCM GUI interface, restore tab, is cumbersome to use, especially when dealing with multiple instances. We should be able to customize the column layout, and sort on multiple columns.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

REST api for dsmadmc

We are doing some "automated" tasks in Spectrum Protect and we are currently doing it by calling dsmadmc.exe (and args). But starting such an process for every request is rather time consuming - and heavy cpu/memory on the Windows machine (having ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Encryption: Switching between Local and External Encryption

Many customers today, like this one, start with Local encryption. Also as this is cheaper, and less effort, than purchasing GKLM. And Local is often initially enough, for data-at-rest encryption. But later on they hear about IFCES (IBM Fibre Chann...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Hyperswap - estimator showing time running with failed communication

It would be nice to have command showing estimated time based on current and historical data transfer for which communication between sites can be broken till free space would be exhaused.
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Multi-Tenancy for Encryption Keys

Secure Multi-Tenancy:Each tenant's data is encrypted with an encryption key that is unique to that tenant, to cryptographically protect each tenant's data from all other tenants (e.g. if they inadvertently gained access to it).
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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