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Spectrum Protect Can not replicate nodes based on policy domain membership

IBM Spectrum Protect Server v8.1.9.300:Can not replicate nodes based on policy domain membership Currently, the replicate node command works on node names, lists of node names, wildcards of node names, node groups, or lists of node groups. We wish...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

SPP - Support for Centrify dzdo where sudo is called

Spectrum Protect Plus has a requirement for the Linux sudo command to be present for installation and configuration tasks. My customer has a security requirement where sudo commands are not allowed. Customer uses Centrify dzdo to provide the eleva...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Contol and Dell/EMC VPLEX

We would like to Spectrum Control to monitor Dell/EMC VPLEX. We use SC to monitor most of our IBM Storwize/SVC installations. We use performance monitor to look at performance statistics and array monitoring for alerting, reporting and billing. We...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

CSM to include text of event in email subject for email notifications

It would be very helpful if the email notifications from CSM could include not just the event code, but the text of the event in the email subject.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

add sort options to mmbackup

mmapplypolicy knows some command line options to control the sorting, namely [--max-sort-bytes MaxBytes] [--other-sort-options SortOptions] [--sort-buffer-size Size] [--sort-command SortCommand] Unfortunately mmbackup does not offer any of these. ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

TS7700 Option to select any or all Cache Partitions to be Cache only

Within the TS7700T we have the option of create CP1 - CP7 (CP0 is cache only). When defining a new Cache Partition I would like to have the option of selecting if a Cache Partition is Cache w/tape or Cache Only. We would also like this option for ...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

resync backup after loss of the cbt

The vmware backup mechanism is based on the vmware CBT to make incremental backups. After an esx crash, the cbt is reset and a FULL backup is made (new base backup). a resync backup feature will be helpful this would take a lot of time to resync b...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow the customers to use SSO / SAML with their domain

As our company security request, it will be better that we can have the function that support SSO/SAML with our domain to login the IBM Insights.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Link the volume name to the subsession on LSVOL command

Customer is scripting command in open environment with CSMSCLI.The environment is a GM environment with the use of sub-session as the customer wants a granularity at the VM level.He needs to find to whom session LUN(s) belongs to in order to creat...
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

CLI to set Restful API requests limits

As for now request limits for restful API are hard-coded in SVC. See table in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/sanvolumecontroller/8.5.x?topic=svc-spectrum-virtualize-restful-api. For some use cases it makes sense to set the limits higher to enable aut...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

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