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Limiting scan permissions for connection

Currently when scanning a connection, Spectrum Discover will index everything. Having the ability to add a connection, but exclude certain paths in that connection based on a set of criteria would be very beneficial. A similar option to how we add...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

CDM compatibility with RHEL8 for SAP HANA -

One of the largest customer in ANZ for SAP HANA on Power is running HANA 2.0 over RHEL 8 and want to use Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) v 2.2.12 As per the current compatibility information
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Chargeback use case - more generally, Enable policies to create/define metadata using arithmetic expressions.

In summary, customers want to be able to perform arithmetic expressions and, if possible, leverage db2wh functions when defining policy to assign value to a tag. For example, customer wants to assign chargeback amount to a tag, "cost" as follows:c...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

DS8000 needs to allow customer access to detailed debugging logs for cloud related activities.

Currently network activity and error states between the DS8000 and cloud porividers, and also between DS8000 and z/OS, is not available to view. The only log available is the audit log which does not provide detail on how the DS8000 preceives or h...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Match field names in UI and REST API

In working with the REST API and spectrum discovers UI side-by-side,we've come across a couple of differences between the two. Specifically, for policy creation the UI requires a "Policy type", while the API requires and "action_id".Additionally, ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

SVC/Spectrum Control iSCSI monitoring

Client wishes to have the ability to monitor performance of their iSCSI connections on SVC using Spectrum Control as they do today on their FC connections. They feel that the underlying technology is there, but do not understand why they cannot ha...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 5 Planned for future release

Increase TS3000 TSSC password to more than the 16 character limit

Passwords are increasing in the length. Our firm requires a minimum 16 character password as a standard. The TSSC webUI seems to have a 16 character limit whereas the TS7700 webUI supports longer passwords. We use LDAP and a single signon methodol...
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Outboard copy inhibit

Provide capability to reset "Outboard Copy Inhibit" flag on the DS8000. This flag is set by mvs software - e.g. TDMF and can be reset by MVS DEVSERV commands. However, a backdoor DS8000 method to do this is absent.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to alert if any tape is written with no encryption

Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to alert if any tape is written with no encryption for any reason. This helps to avoid any unencrypted tapes being created in the environment.
over 3 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 3 Planned for future release

Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series

Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series storage systems.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Planned for future release