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3rd vdisk copy for volume migration

The vdisk mirror function is great, but there are a couple of scenarios where two mirrored copies are actually not enough for many customers. Typically this is when customers mandate that there are ALWAYS two copies of a volume. The function does ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Add certificate JKS synchronizing between Primary and Standby Servers

Our INSOSEC department does not allow any self-signed certificates in our environment. All certificates must be CA-Signed. We currently run our Primary CSM on z/OS to make it simple to manage Hyperswap sessions. We run our Standby Servers on HMC s...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Syslog messages forwarded to a syslog server have to be encrypted by TLS protocol

in our data centers syslog messages have to be encrypted. we got an open risk because COS System send syslog messages unencrypted to the syslog server.
2 months ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

ISP DP for SQL Powershell in AlwaysON Environment / restore Script

This Script (Command Line Interface) allows us to do faster restore compare to the Graphical User Interface. MMC GUI has long wait time when restore inactive backup's as described in the case (TS004928519). In a case of ransomware we can't accept ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

SPP support for Bare Metal Recovery (OS Image) for Windows and Linux

SPP support for Bare Metal Recovery (OS Image) for Windows and Linux.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

seems deleting data from TSM trough TDP exchange client/console is allowed, even if on TSM node deleting backups and deleting archive is set to ‘NO’

Hi! We had an open point/call with IBM , seems deleting data from TSM trough TDP exchange client/console is allowed, even if on TSM node deleting backups and deleting archive is set to ‘NO’ My suggestion is to add some features to block this becau...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Future consideration

SPP support for Tanzu environments

backup/restore support for K8s running on Tanzu (PVC and etcd etc.) with SPP
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support BSD groups semantics

Customer is migrating from Isilon, which supports configuring the BSD group semantincs meaning that new files inherit the group id of the parent group. Some file systems on linux support the "grpid" or "bsdgroups" mount option to enable same seman...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Include SW that looks to see if a health check has been done within 24-48 hours before allowing a Storage Scale SW upgrade

Ensures that a Storage Scale/ESS SW upgrade will not fail due to potentially failed boot drives or other drives/components having failed since the last health check, if the health check had been performed many days or weeks previously to the SW up...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

Storage Insights should not report a node is in error status, if the cluster is being upgraded.

If a cluster is being updated, all of the nodes are going to be offline at some point. That is expected. One shouldn't receive a notice that "Storage System Node Status Is Error ". SI should know that an upgrade is being performed, so it doesn't n...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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