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Enable a user to change the time zone within browser view of metrics

When I view performance metrics for a given Storage Virtualize (StorV) cluster SI renders time based on browser time zone setting. My investigation of performance issues would more efficient If I could change the time zone to match the time zone o...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Increment the options of Send at the Report value. Increase intervals.

Today, the Operation Center has two options to generate the report: Everyday or Weekly. The ideia, is to have more options, frequency and intervals to generate this report. In the understanding, the Operation Center, doesn't use the Spectrum Prote...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Configure TSM4VE without SP Admin Access

IBM Storage Protect is a popular Service Provider product and it is possible to buy backup functionality using IBM Storage Protect as a backup engine. But all of them is created to only run old legacy backup like installing client in the operating...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Implement the possibility to balance host I/O throttling on cache partition level

When TS7700 runs into host I/O throttling, this throttling is equal across all CPx partitions today. Since work load on different CPx may have higher or lower priority in the business/application context, it is required to have the possibility to ...
5 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Enhanced CSM Notification with priority and persistence functionality

Adding the ability to make an alert persistent by selection would allow for some level of prioritization for critical type alerts versus non critical or informational type alerts. Currently the alerts are one shot. The alerts are not redriven at a...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

ACTIVE DIRECTORY BACKUP FOR PROTECT PLUS

One of the most asked feature by business partners and customers is support of Active Directory backup and granular recovery of AD with Protect Plus. Almost every our competitor has AD backup granular recovery of its objects.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Change the status of this type of error , so no PARTIAL status is returned. Only some warnings in job log.

Error Message in the Application Inventory Job, which ends the Job partially (This trigger always a Ticket): [example.server.ch] A running instance was not found for database EXAMPLE. This error is raised because autostart is enabled in oratab. A ...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

After TLS certificate expires, IBM Spectrum Protect Server automatically renews the previous certificate distributed to nodes.

IBM Spectrum Protect Server TLS certificate expires 10 years after the server instance is created. Immediately after the expiration, all client nodes are unable to connect to the server. One of my customers provides a backup service in their priva...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Improve the Logical Path Change alert to be more specific.

Currently, when a connection is temporarily dropped, we receive an email alert (like the one shown below) to notify us that a path has gone down. In the DS8K log, we can see when the path goes down, & when comes back up, but the alerts show th...
6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

RegionalDR and S3 Acceleration at the same time

Clients who are building data lakehouse , are also building DR capabilities. Fusion HCI, Watsonx and CEPH are bringing turnkey experience Fusion HCI 2.7.1 wil bring Regional DR capabilities.Fusion HCI brings alot of benefits to Watsonx.data, inclu...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

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